Rebecca Gibney, 59, offers seven pieces of advice she’d give her younger self as she prepares for TV comeback in Stan’s Prosper

Australian actress Rebecca Gibney has shared the advice she’d give her younger self as she prepares to return to the small screen in the Stan Original series Prosper.

Speaking to the Australian Women’s Weekly, the 59-year-old offered seven pieces of sage guidance.

‘Stop obsessing about what other people might think of you. Really, it doesn’t matter,’ she said. 

Another tip was to, ‘have authenticity, integrity, kindness and compassion for yourself, so you can then share those qualities with other people.’

The actress also stressed that it’s important to, ‘realise that it’s yourself that you need to love first.’

Australian actress Rebecca Gibney has shared the advice she’d give her younger self as she prepares to return to the small screen in the Stan Original series Prosper

Rebecca skyrocketed to fame in Australia back in the mid-1980s in The Flying Doctors. 

She went on to star in television hits like Halifax f.p. and Packed to the Rafters.

Her latest role is playing the wife of a megachurch preacher in the Stan Original series Prosper.  

The Sydney-filmed Australian drama is a razor-sharp satire which takes a provocative peek at faith, power and privilege.

Speaking to the Australian Women's Weekly, the 59-year-old offered seven pieces of sage guidance

Speaking to the Australian Women’s Weekly, the 59-year-old offered seven pieces of sage guidance

Rebecca Gibney’s seven tips for her younger self

  • Stop obsessing about what other people might think of you. Really, it doesn’t matter
  • Don’t obsess about your body. Who cares?
  • Stop wearing make-up. You’re beautiful without it
  • You don’t have to conform
  • Have authenticity, integrity, kindness and compassion for yourself, so you can then share those qualities with other people
  • Recognise that you are unique and special, that there’s only one of you and there will never be another one like you
  • Realise that it’s yourself that you need to love first

Gibney, 59, and Roxburgh, 61, play a married couple living in Sydney who work at building a global megachurch with designs on taking over the world. 

Stan Chief Content Officer Cailah Scobie revealed the series was made in conjunction with Hollywood studio Lionsgate and said viewers can expect ‘a prestige drama that explores the consequences of unbridled power and desire.’

The veteran actors play the Quinns, who are the driving force behind a Sydney-based evangelical megachurch.

As their church prepares to make a lucrative jump into the U.S. market, a dark secret threatens to tear their family apart from within.

Rebecca skyrocketed to fame in Australia back in the mid-1980s in The Flying Doctors

Rebecca skyrocketed to fame in Australia back in the mid-1980s in The Flying Doctors

The story centres on Cal Quinn (Roxburgh) and his wife Abi (Gibney), who are the founders of U Star, the fastest growing church in the world.

Hugely wealthy and powerful, the couple are set to acquire an even greater influence as they launch U Star in America.

The Quinns struggle to manage their rebellious youngest son Jed (Jacob Collins-Levy) and keep a lid on a shameful family secret. 

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