Everyone remembers her as Chrissy Snow, but she also wrote a book (late 80s, early 90s?) about growing up with alcoholic parents, landing in Hollywood, having a baby very young and very alone, and finally learning to adult and have primary relationships as a person who never really saw how it was supposed to be done. Reading it was painful and raw and eye-opening.
I didn’t follow her career after the 70s but I have thought of that book off and on throughout the years: it taught me some things I never knew myself, not least that it’s very easy to judge.
She was a good soul, smart and strong, and a vastly deeper human being than the ones she tended to portray on screen. I think she made the world a better place for being in it. May her memory be a blessing.
I had no idea. Thank you for sharing that.
“Keeping Secrets” by Suzanne Somers for the curious
That’s the one. I know she wrote others, but that’s the one I read. Thank you.
Everyone pause using their Thighmasters in salute.
Rest in peace Suzanne.
Her character and the thighmaster commercial often positioned her as a punchline, but I will always appreciated her spirit which had a Dolly Parton like quality - there was only love for her.
Having said that, October 16 is her Birthday (today) which she would have been 77. Mathematically living exactly 77 years on earth. (Assuming she had lived past her birth time of day yesterday.)
Her posters were in every teen boys’ bedrooms back in the day. RIP Suzanne Somers.
I didn’t even know it was possible to have cancer for several decades.
