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"It's really important to find something you really enjoy, something you can focus on and be good at."

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Mackenzie Rosman was an actress who didn't take much interest in making a lifelong career out of the job. Though she had a stunning debut on 7th Heaven, it seems that performing for the cameras just didn't really fit into her life's plan, and to date her last television role was a part in the TV movie Ghost Shark (2013). Given the success she had on her landmark TV drama, however, there's not too much reason to feel bad for her. She's living the life she wants to live, it just doesn't happen to involve entertainment these days. 

Horse Girls

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Mackenzie Rosman essentially retired from acting a few years after the finale of 7th Heaven (1996-2007), but you don't need to worry about how she's making a living these days. The Young Artist Award winner (and six-time nominee) seems to have done quite well for herself over the course of the series. We don't have exact numbers, but her personal fortune has been estimated in the area of four million dollars. Of course, that stands to reason. When you star on a hit TV series, your per-episode pay tends to get higher with each new season.

We don't know precisely what Rosman was making per episode, but to give you a ballpark estimate: Jaleel White was earning around $100,000 an episode for Family Matters, and the main cast of The Big Bang Theory were making about a million each.

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During early seasons, actors tend to be paid more modestly. Jerry Seinfeld, for instance, was making about $20,000 an episode for the first season of Seinfeld, and he was the titular character. Networks try to keep the risk low when a show is first starting out. Not to mention, there's no telling which actors will prove critical to the show, and which will leave or be let go by the time the series picks up steam. And of course, you don't want to pay people half a million an episode only for the show to flop.

However, Rosman was a vital member of the ensemble cast of a show that ran for eleven seasons, more than a decade. So there may be no telling exactly what she was being paid per episode, but it's a safe bet that the show's producers made it worth her while.

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So what do you spend your money on when you made a fortune as a teenager and retired from acting? For Rosman, it seems to be horses. Her favorite is "Mentos Junior," on whom she competes in show jumping competitions. She stays active in charity, as well, being devoted to fundraising for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, having lost her stepsister to cystic fibrosis in her youth.

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As of the time of this writing, Mackenzie Rosman has been out of the acting game for seven years. They say "never say never," but it doesn't seem as if Mackenzie has any interest in returning to film and television. Of course, if they ever reboot 7th Heaven as they have TV series like Full House and Roseanne, it just wouldn't be the same without Rosman, so who knows?

For the time being, Mackenzie seems more than happy to focus on her show jumping competitions and care for her horses. Given that 7th Heaven only went off the air in the late 2000s, it might be a little early to start talking about a reunion, but with a strong fanbase, and nineties nostalgia starting to hit full swing, the time may well be ripe to get the Camden family back together for a special or a whole new series.

"I don't know what I want to be when I grow up. It's funny, people ask me that, and I don't know what to tell them."