"I eat a lot. I eat three times a day and I snack"
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The intent feels practical on its face, but the subtext is reputational. Somers spent decades being talked about in terms of image: the perky sitcom persona, the brand-building, the scrutiny that clings to aging women in entertainment. Saying "I eat a lot" is a way of reclaiming normalcy in a culture that markets female self-denial as virtue. The repetition ("I eat... I eat...") is doing work: it’s insistence, as if she’s anticipating disbelief. And the specificity of "three times a day" reads like a receipt, proof that she’s not cheating the rules of desirability by starving herself off-camera.
Context matters: Somers also became synonymous with diet plans, supplements, and the wellness-industrial optimism that promises control over time itself. In that light, the quote doubles as branding: appetite, but managed; indulgence, but scheduled; snacking, but named. It’s a casual sentence that still lives inside a system where even eating has to be narrated, justified, and made market-friendly.
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| Topic | Food |
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Somers, Suzanne. (2026, January 17). I eat a lot. I eat three times a day and I snack. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-eat-a-lot-i-eat-three-times-a-day-and-i-snack-71542/
Chicago Style
Somers, Suzanne. "I eat a lot. I eat three times a day and I snack." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-eat-a-lot-i-eat-three-times-a-day-and-i-snack-71542/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I eat a lot. I eat three times a day and I snack." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-eat-a-lot-i-eat-three-times-a-day-and-i-snack-71542/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.




