Time & Perspective Quote by Suzanne Somers

Somers makes “I’ve never been to a gym” sound less like confession than provocation: a rejection of the modern wellness script delivered with the brisk cadence of a working performer. The line is built on a familiar celebrity move - turning a potential weakness into evidence of grit - but she sharpens it by framing gym culture as theater. That “little outfit” isn’t incidental; it’s a costume, a wink at the performative side of fitness where the body is both project and product.

The subtext is class and labor, not just vanity. “I’ve been working for the last 25 years” positions exercise as a luxury of people with schedule elasticity, while she casts herself as someone whose job already demands bodily maintenance, camera readiness, and relentless self-management. It’s also a subtle defense against the suspicion aimed at women in the spotlight: if you look good, you must be “doing something.” She’s saying: I’m not spending extra hours in the sanctioned temple of self-improvement; my life is the workout.

Context matters because Somers is a celebrity brand as much as an actress, long associated with body and wellness talk in a pre-Instagram era. She anticipates judgment - the expectation that disciplined femininity includes gym time - and flips it into a critique of the ritual: commute, change, sweat, shower, return. The humor lands because the list is so mundane it exposes the gym’s hidden tax: time, logistics, and a kind of compliance. It’s not anti-fitness so much as anti-performance of fitness, from someone who has already made a career out of performance.