Around age 40 I put on twenty pounds. I had always had a perfect metabolism. But, my metabolism betrayed me as it does most people, except a very rare few who will always be thin.

"Many people write Suzanne off as a quackadoo" Winfrey said when Somers appeared on her show. She was accepted as a Playmate candidate in 1971 but declined to pose nude before the actual shoot. Her family attended church at St.

Somers later became the author of a series of best-selling self-help books including Ageless: The Naked Truth About Bioidentical Hormones (2006) a book about bioidentical hormone replacement therapy. Suzanne Somers (born Suzanne Marie Mahoney; October 16 1946) is an American actress author singer and businesswoman known for her television roles as Chrissy Snow on Three's Company and as Carol Lambert on Step by Step. [citation needed]
She is criticized for her views on some medical subjects and her advocacy of the Wiley Protocol which has been labelled as "scientifically unproven and dangerous".