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Suzanne Somers: San Bruno
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When Suzanne Somers was a little girl in San Bruno, California, she dreamed of a career in show business. In her college days, she starred in Guys and Dolls, Gypsy and Oklahoma. One of her most memorable early roles was the mysterious blonde driving the Thunderbird in George Lucas' American Graffiti.
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Somers was born Suzanne Marie Mahoney, the third of four children in Frank and Marion Mahoney's Irish Catholic household in San Bruno, California. Her father was an alcoholic who could become violent on occasion, as Somers recounted, often forcing her to hide in her closet. She suffered from dyslexia and was a poor student. After being expelled from parochial school for having love notes in her locker, Suzanne went to Capuchino High School, where she appeared in several drama productions, including portraying Adelaide in the Frank Loesser musical Guys and Dolls. Due to his drinking problem, her father was too inebriated to attend Suzanne's high school graduation in June 1964. A made-for-TV-movie starring Somers (based on her first autobiography, Keeping Secrets) was made about her life and growing up with an alcoholic father.
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Suzanne and her husband divorced 2 years after Bruce was born. Then, Suzanne, a single mother, became a model in San Francisco to support herself and her son. She ... tried to stay away from her family because they were alcoholics like her father.
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Despite her remarkable appearance, life wasn't always easy for Suzanne Somers. Born in 1946 in San Bruno, California, the young Suzanne battled a lack of self-confidence as she grew up under the emotional abuse of her laborer father, Frank Mahoney. She married college student Bruce Somers shortly after high school and quickly gave birth to a son. The marriage soon disolved, and Somers faced a dark and desperate time: money was tight and modeling jobs barely produced enough income to support her and her child.
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