Calling A Method That Throws Exception?

I have a file greenGrow.txt, and every three lines of the file has a last name, first name, and yard size. Every time a Customer object is created, I need to read the file 3 lines and assign the object a last name, first name, and yard size.

Snippet of my code:

import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
public class Customer {
private String lastName;
private String firstName;
private int yardSize;

[Code] .....

My issue is that I cannot call readFile() from the constructor, and I'm assuming that's because I throw Exception on readFile(). Is this a simple fix, or am I looking at it the wrong way?