In 1973, she began to get small TV and roles. When he had therapy to deal with nightmares, Somers began to examine her own dysfunctional childhood. In 1971, Suzanne's six-year-old son was hit by a car. Pregnant again, she reluctantly decided on an abortion. She appeared in a nude (but unrecognizable) cover for Newsweek in March 1970, but financially stressed, was arrested in August 1970 for writing bad checks. Suzanne was determined to be an actress, through modeling. Her only child, Bruce Jr., was born that November and the young couple divorced in 1967. She started college but her education was cut short when she got pregnant and married her beau, Bruce Somers, in April 1965. Shy and skinny, she was a bed-wetter until high school. Her dad's alcoholic raging abuse was a family secret and the child grew up in fear. Suzanne was the third of four kids born to a brewery worker and a secretary. Somers said she was fired for asking to be paid as much as popular male television stars of the day. She lost her co-star role when she requested a raise from $30,000 to $150,000 she was, instead, replaced. Her first appearance was in the 1973 film American Graffiti before she became involved in her first big TV series, Three's Company (1977-1981). American actress of films and television series usually cast as the sexy dumb-blonde.
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