SUZANNE SOMERS LIPOSUCTION SCANDAL ERUPTS!

IN A BLOCKBUSTER exclusive on newsstands this week, The National ENQUIRER reveals that fitness queen Suzanne Somers — who’s made a fortune pitching the body-sculpting ThighMaster — hides a startling secret behind her picture-perfect body: She’s undergone liposuction!

Suzanne swears by an exercise and diet program that allows rich foods that other diets forbid, but a source close to the 54-year-old beauty says that Suzanne recently had fat suctioned from her inner and outer thighs, abdomen, hips and upper back behind the armpits.

A spokesperson for the former Three’s Company star adamantly denied the story when contacted by The ENQUIRER, claiming Suzanne went to the Lasky Clinic in Beverly Hills to have a mole removed.

But faced with the overwhelming evidence — and photos! — in the ENQUIRER’s current issue, another rep offered a much weaker denial: “We’re really not going to make any comments,” the publicist told TV Guide Online. “We don’t want to spend any more energy on this and dignify this.”

Legendary fitness guru Jack LaLanne, who’s still fit at 86, believes this is proof-positive that Suzanne’s so-called slim-down plan doesn’t work.

“So what happened to her system?” he blasted. “It must not be working for her! This is the extreme in hypocrisy. She’s let down all her fans, admirers and customers.”

Get the full details on Suzanne’s secret surgery in this week’s issue of The National ENQUIRER, on sale now.