Star owes figure to healthy living and lots of love(making)

Oct 17, 2014 09:31 GMT  ·  By
Suzanne Somers agreed to pose in a bikini for magazine at the age of 68 to send a message on real beauty
   Suzanne Somers agreed to pose in a bikini for magazine at the age of 68 to send a message on real beauty

Former “Three’s Company” actress Suzanne Somers is out to show all women in Hollywood (and the world) that age is indeed, as the saying goes, nothing but a number. So she’s agreed to pose for the National Enquirer in a two-piece swimsuit at the beach, just like her much younger fellow actresses do all the time, but never admit to.  

Suzanne, by the way, is 68 years old and she’s a breast cancer survivor. She also credits her figure and her good looks not to pills or surgery, but to a healthy lifestyle and a loving and very supportive partner who makes her happy every day. Sometimes even twice, if we’re not being too subtle here.

Suzanne talks to Meredith Vieira about the unusual shoot

The star stopped by Meredith Vieira’s show the other night, and among other things, she also talked about the unusual proposal from The National Enquirer. In case you didn’t know, celebrities often strike this kind of deals with paparazzi agencies or even the weeklies directly, in which they agree to take part in a staged but apparently “unplanned” photo-op, in exchange for a certain amount of money.

As you can see in the video below, Suzanne says she feigned a refusal, but let them know that she would be going at the beach soon, because she knew they would tag along. Said and done.

“I went to the beach with my husband and I held my stomach in all afternoon and just prayed they didn’t get any bad angles. I was really happy with it,” she tells Meredith. “The reason I wanted to do it – there’s the message I put out in all my books, there is a new way to age and it’s not about drugs, it’s not about surgery.”

Suzanne has spoken before about her lifestyle, which implies eating very healthy and getting lots of exercise, but also taking vitamins and hormones. She also credited her husband’s regular lovemaking (sometimes even twice a day) for keeping her young and healthy.

Suzanne lets Meredith feel the breast she grew out of stem cells

About 12 years ago, the actress was diagnosed with breast cancer and had part of the breast removed through surgery. Later on, she decided that she didn’t want reconstructive surgery because she didn’t want a foreign body like an implant put inside her.

She started looking into stem cell experiments and came across the work of Dr. Kotora Yoshimura from Tokyo, who had already helped 400 women regrow breasts from stem cells. She traveled there and brought him back to the US, and as she admits in the video below too, 3 years later, she had her breast back.   

“I lost two thirds of that breast to surgery. Three years ago, I was the first person in the United States to legally regrow my own breasts using my own stem cells,” she says, right before inviting Meredith to feel the breast and compare for differences with the other.

A wonderful message

Having her photos splashed on the cover of magazines in a bikini might seem excessive to many, but at the end of the day, Somers’ message is commendable: beauty knows no age, just like happiness doesn’t either. She is one of the few women in showbiz who’d ever dare to pose in a bikini at her age, precisely because this is a culture where beauty is entirely dependent on age.

She’s courageous for taking part in this shoot and for having her body up on the cover of that magazine, for millions of people to analyze and love / hate, but one could argue that she would have been and felt just as beautiful if she’d kept her clothes on. The same argument goes for younger stars too.

Then again, in the end, it’s up to them to choose the manner in which they deliver their message, and whether they’ll be clothed or not when they do it. So, how you feel about the one Suzanne Somers chose? Let us know in the comments section below.