Australia was shocked when the star of The Sullivans was found living the high life in Los Angeles five years ago, having reinvented herself as a billionaire real estate mogul, 25 years after she turned her back on fame.
With striking long blonde hair and a killer body draped in designer clothes, she was barely recognisable. The woman who became known as Australia's sweetheart playing naive schoolgirl Kitty in The Sullivans was no more.
There's no mistaking her famously girlish voice, however, as Susan opens up to Woman's Day about her life, loves, adopted children, plastic surgery, billion-dollar fortune, a new career as a fashion designer – and her comeback to the small screen.
And she blames Kitty Sullivan for the air of mystery that evolved around her
