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# Faces of the day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/faces-of-the-day-125/
- Published: 2019-05-30T18:30:27.000Z
- Updated: 2019-07-07T22:07:31.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Blog, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 04:14

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Oops. The faces on the government’s Wellbeing budget had to move to Australia to make ends meet.

> Freeman isn’t such a great choice to be the face promoting today’s Budget – given she no longer lives in this country.  
> \[…\] she had worked hard to get into the acting and modelling arena – which eventually led to her moving back to Australia to make ends meet.  
> Freeman, who features on the Wellbeing Budget with her 9-year-old daughter Ruby-Jean, said she moved to Auckland at the start of 2018 to pursue her dream.  
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> While they both got good work – featuring on Shortland Street, Jono and Ben and advertisements including Harvey Norman – she couldn’t afford the financial sacrifice, a brutal realisation after discovering she was paying her 15-year-old babysitter more than she was earning.  
> She admitted she had given up on New Zealand.  
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> “Honestly, I’m a single mum, so that photo is true, it’s just me and my girl, that’s us.\[…\]  
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> Freeman said the high cost of living in Auckland was a major factor in moving overseas.  
> “We moved to Auckland to do the TV thing but I couldn’t pay the rent \[…\]   
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