Due to contract negotiations with Suzanne Somers, Jenilee Harrison joined Three’s Company during Season 5, playing Chrissy’s cousin, Cindy, a cute but klutzy farm girl with enough similarities to Suzanne’s character that the writers didn’t have to do much to the episodes that had already been written for the season. A few minor edits and voila, Chrissy’s lines became Cindy’s.
Although Jenilee was a relative newcomer to TV audiences, she’d already been performing in front of huge crowds for a couple of years. You see, Jenilee was a Los Angeles Rams cheerleader. She was actually part of the very first squad for the Rams, and that exposure led to her very first TV gig on CHiPs. And wouldn’t you know it, on that TV show, she played a cheerleader for the Los Angeles Rams!