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Life's Pleasures Quote by Suzanne Somers

"I eat a lot. I eat three times a day and I snack"

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There is something almost defiant in how blunt this sounds: not a confession, not a punchline, just a body doing the most ordinary thing in public. Coming from Suzanne Somers, a woman whose career was built in the high-gloss machinery of TV likability and later in the even harsher economy of celebrity wellness, the line lands as a small act of counter-programming. It refuses the old starlet script where appetite is either invisible or punished.

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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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/

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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.

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Suzanne Somers (born October 16, 1946) is a Actress from USA.

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