Her husband Alan Hamel, her son Bruce and other family members were with her.

Somers in July posted on Instagram, letting her followers know about her ongoing battle with breast cancer. “As you know, I had breast cancer two decades ago, and every now and then it pops up again, and I continue to bat it down,” she stated at the time. “ … This is not new territory for me. I know how to put on my battle gear and I’m a fighter.”

Somers was born in 1946 in San Bruno, Calif. She appeared in minor TV roles throughout the 1970s, but her portrayal of lighthearted character Chrissy Snow in “Three’s Company” launched her into stardom.

The popular sitcom ran for eight seasons from 1977 through 1984, and followed the lives and misadventures of two women and one man living in California. She won a People’s Choice Award for her role as Snow in 1978 — but Somers’s time on the show ended abruptly after she asked for a raise, The Washington Post reported. Somers requested her pay increase from $30,000 per episode to $150,000 and asked for a portion of the show’s earnings. Producers were reluctant, and she was eventually fired. The show didn’t feature her former character for its remaining four years.

She later went on to star in the seven-season sitcom “Step by Step,” for which she again won a People’s Choice Award.

She also wrote two autobiographies. “Keeping Secrets” published in 1988 and detailed her troubled upbringing, including her father’s alleged alcoholism. Ten years later, she published “After the Fall: How I Picked Myself Up, Dusted Myself Off, and Started all Over Again,” which took readers behind the scenes during her time on set of “Three’s Company,” including her fight for a raise.

Despite her TV fame, in an interview with Entrepreneur magazine in 2020, Somers said she was best known for her commercials for the ThighMaster, a fitness device she marketed in the 1990s.