New lease ON LIFE
As Lucy Gardiner on A Country Practice, Terri Sullivan on All Saints, and – most recently – Roo Stewart on Home and Away, actress Georgie Parker has been a fixture on our screens since the ’80s. Iconic, long-running roles aside, she’s also managed to pick up seven Logies, forge a dazzling theatre career, marry her dream guy, and become a mum along the way. Her secret? The simple fact that she’s full of beans.
“I have a lot of natural physical energy,” a smiling Georgie tells Good Health & Wellbeing. “I’m quite excitable! And expending some of this excess energy through exercise definitely helps relax me.”
‘I’VE ALWAYS LIKED HEALTH. IT’S JUST THE WAY I WAS RAISED’
The go-getter’s passion for fitness has its roots in her childhood, during which she was a confirmed “sporty kid”.
“I’ve always liked health,” she says. “It’s just the way I was raised. I played a lot of softball, swam and was a ballet dancer. For us, it was never about how you looked, it was always about how exercise made you
