Anderson told The Associated Press<\/a>. <\/p>\nAnderson detailed their tumultuous marriage in the 1995 autobiography, \u201cMy Life in High Heels,\u201d which she said was about \u201cthe growth of a woman, a woman who survives.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cI think if you\u2019re going to write about yourself, you have to do it warts and all,\u201d Anderson told the AP while promoting the book. \u201cYou may not even tell the nicest things about yourself, because you\u2019re telling the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n
She married four times, most recently to Bob Flick in 2008. <\/p>\n
Anderson was born Aug. 5, 1945, in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Her father was an environmental chemist, and her mother was a model. <\/p>\n
Her first role as an actress was a small part in the 1966 film \u201cNevada Smith,\u201d starring Steve McQueen. Most of her career was spent on the small screen with early guest parts in the 1970s on \u201cS.W.A.T.\u201d and \u201cPolice Woman.\u201d After \u201cWKRP\u201d Anderson starred in the short-lived comedy series \u201cEasy Street\u201d and appeared in made-for-TV movies including \u201cA Letter to Three Wives\u201d and \u201cWhite Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd.\u201d<\/p>\n
While facing her medical diagnosis with determination, she continued working and co-starred in Lifetime\u2019s \u201cLadies Of The 80s: A Divas Christmas\u201d with Linda Gray, Donna Mills, Morgan Fairchild and Nicollette Sheridan. The popular TV movie aired on Dec. 2, 2023, as part of a Wonderful Lifetime holiday slate.<\/p>\n
Anderson is survived by Flick, her daughter Deidra and son-in law Charlie Hoffman, son Quinton Anderson Reynolds, grandchildren McKenzie and Megan Hoffman, stepson Adam Flick and wife Helene, and step-grandchildren Felix and Maximilian.<\/p>\n
A private family service is planned at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Kagan said. <\/p>\n
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Associated Press journalist Itzel Luna in Los Angeles contributed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Loni Anderson, who played a struggling radio station\u2019s empowered receptionist on the hit TV…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":116730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3881,73136,2059,276,435,1899,73135,73131,1144,73128,171,73130,57,73132,73133,73134,73127,73124,224,73137,73138,73139,12299,73125,73126,399,73129,61,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-116729","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-ap-top-news","9":"tag-bob-flick","10":"tag-ca-state-wire","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-celebrity","13":"tag-celebrity-deaths","14":"tag-charlie-hoffman","15":"tag-cheryl-j-kagan","16":"tag-comedy","17":"tag-donna-mills","18":"tag-entertainment","19":"tag-gary-sandy","20":"tag-general-news","21":"tag-howard-hesseman","22":"tag-jan-smithers","23":"tag-jennifer-marlowe","24":"tag-linda-gray","25":"tag-loni-anderson","26":"tag-los-angeles","27":"tag-megan-hoffman","28":"tag-morgan-fairchild","29":"tag-nicollette-sheridan","30":"tag-notable-deaths","31":"tag-quinton-reynolds","32":"tag-steve-mcqueen","33":"tag-television","34":"tag-tim-reid","35":"tag-u-s-news","36":"tag-united-states","37":"tag-unitedstates","38":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114967338379219617","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}