Good Health Choices Magazine NZ

Spreading JOY

When Kim picks up the phone from her apartment in Los Angeles to chat with Good Health, she’s already had two auditions, a video shoot, and having just been given a 10-page script for an 11am audition the next morning, her schedule for the evening is blocked out too.

For the bubbly blonde actress and comedian, best known to many Kiwis for her role as Sophie McKay on Shortland Street, pursuing the Hollywood dream is an absolute whirlwind and no day is ever the same. At 29, she’s an exuberant box of birds; however it isn’t long into our conversation that she opens up about how much the lifestyle can take its toll.

Earlier in the year, she was diagnosed with quite a serious case of burnout, and it’s the first time she has really had to prioritise her health.

A challenging chapter

“It wasn’t super shocking,” she shares, saying she was burning the

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