Suzanne Somersis feeling positive as she looks forward to turning another year older.
The actress and author, who turns 77 on Monday, tells PEOPLE via email exclusively that she is planning to be with her “nearest and dearest” on her special day, including her “beloved husbandAlan [Hamel], our three children, Leslie, Stephen, and Bruce, [his wife] Caroline, plus our six wonderful grandchildren.”
“I heard Caroline is making her famous short rib tacos and I have asked for copious amounts of cake,” says theNew York Timesbest-selling author, who wed Hamel in 1977. “I really love cake.”
Suzanne Somers, Alan Hamel and family.Caroline Somers
Caroline Somers
Somers is recognizing the challenging year with a piece of heartfelt jewelry, telling PEOPLE she “decided to make a special little LOVE bracelet” and gift the piece to “amazing friends and followers who have been so loyal and loving to me, especially since my recent health setbacks.”
Suzanne Somers LOVE bracelet.suzannesomers.com
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“It’s a silver heart design on a gold satin cord and it’s a way for us to send and receive love and feel the unity of our most important human connection,” Somers adds. “The message on the card memorializes a voice that I heard, as clear as day, when I was in the hospital about 10 years ago. It said, ‘It’s not who you are. It’s not what you have. It’s not what you do. It’s only about who you love and who loves you.’
“The voice was so loud and clear, it was as though it came through the speaker system,” she continues. “I knew in that moment God was speaking directly to me and simplifying our entire existence here on Earth.”
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In July, the entrepreneur revealed on Instagram that her breast cancer had returned after her first diagnosis in 2000.
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“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 wrote. “I have used the best alternative and conventional treatments to combat it. This is not new territory for me. I know how to put on my battle gear and I’m a fighter.”
TheThree’s Companystar shared a photo of herself alongside her husband, expressing gratitude for how much he and her family have been supportive since her first battle with cancer.
In 2017 she opened up to PEOPLE aboutembracing her blended family. “Kids don’t know blood,” she said at the time of being a stepmom to Stephen and Leslie (Hamel’s children from a previous marriage). “I look at all of them and I [think], ‘We made it through the rain,’ as Barry [Manilow] says.”
source: people.com
