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Former actress Simmone Jade Mackinnon has spoken of falling on hard times after soaring to fame in the early 2000s.
Known for her pin-up girl looks, Mackinnon started her career in the American series Baywatch: Hawaii, which aired from 1999 to 2001, and then returned home for her starring role as Stevie Hall in popular drama McLeod's Daughters from 2003 to 2009.
But her decade-long stint on television did not set Mackinnon up for life.
After McLeod's Daughters ended, she drifted away from the industry and ended up in financial stress, which took such a toll on her that she suffered from panic attacks and hair loss.
These days, the 2007 Gold Logie nominee - who was once engaged to Hollywood star Jason Momoa - is living in a caravan with her 13-year-old son after stepping away from the limelight and going broke.
She spoke of her heartbreaking situation on Nine's reality show The Summit, where she is competing for a chance to win a life-changing $1million cash prize.
Known for her pin-up girl looks, Simmone Jade Mackinnon started her career in the American series Baywatch: Hawaii, which aired from 1999 to 2001, and then returned home for her starring role as Stevie Hall in McLeod's Daughters from 2003 to 2009 (pictured)
'The last three years have been the hardest of my life,' Mackinnon said.
'And that caused severe anxiety. After a week of back-to-back panic attacks that led to massive hair loss.
'There was big chunks just falling out so I had to shave it all off. You lose your hair and it's a massive psychological hit.
'I just hid. I hid away from everything and everyone for years.'
Simmone took an extended career break after McLeod's Daughters was axed in 2009, telling the Advertiser she advised her agents she wanted to focus on raising her son, who she realised 'would more than likely be my only child'.
After McLeod's Daughters ended, she drifted away from the industry and ended up in financial stress, which took such a toll on her she suffered from panic attacks and hair loss
Years later, in 2016, she bought a caravan with the intention of travelling the countryside.
But her road trip dreams never materialised and that caravan ended up parked on a family property for two years when her father became ill.
In a strange case of life imitating art, the ex-actress later took a job working on a cattle
