"I happen to have the benefit of having a son-in-law who was the former Mr. France and a trainer. I like being his benefactor, and I like the way he works"
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Then there’s the deliciously telling title, “the former Mr. France.” It’s a credential meant to land fast, even if it’s oddly generic and faintly tabloid. Somers isn’t arguing for expertise through résumes; she’s invoking the recognizable shorthand of beauty-pageant legitimacy. In celebrity culture, “former Mr. France” functions like a brand label: you don’t need to know the details, you just need to feel reassured.
The second half shifts from admiration to patronage. “I like being his benefactor” is unusually blunt, almost transactional, and that bluntness is the point. Somers is narrating a relationship where support is affection, and paying is a form of participation. The subtext: she’s not merely a client getting trained; she’s the engine underwriting a family enterprise, the matriarch-investor who gets to praise “the way he works” because she’s funding the work.
Contextually, it fits Somers’s long-running persona as an entrepreneur-actress in the self-improvement economy: health, body maintenance, and intimate access reframed as savvy, not vanity.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Somers, Suzanne. (2026, February 18). I happen to have the benefit of having a son-in-law who was the former Mr. France and a trainer. I like being his benefactor, and I like the way he works. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-happen-to-have-the-benefit-of-having-a-84584/
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Somers, Suzanne. "I happen to have the benefit of having a son-in-law who was the former Mr. France and a trainer. I like being his benefactor, and I like the way he works." FixQuotes. February 18, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-happen-to-have-the-benefit-of-having-a-84584/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I happen to have the benefit of having a son-in-law who was the former Mr. France and a trainer. I like being his benefactor, and I like the way he works." FixQuotes, 18 Feb. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-happen-to-have-the-benefit-of-having-a-84584/. Accessed 22 Feb. 2026.




