Far from the "exuberant personality" she once was, she latterly spent her days "walking the dog, doing some cooking and watching TV", consultant psychiatrist Philip Joseph told a fitness to plead hearing in April held at Lewes crown court.
She admitted she didn't directly choose it but her relationships never reached that stage and she latterly didn't want to become "a science experiment" in order to achieve it in her early 40s.
She left the Army in 1997 where she had latterly been a sergeant in the Adjutant General's Corps to focus full-time on athletics and was awarded an MBE in the military division for her service.
She lived latterly in Cuckfield, West Sussex, where in 2001 she became mayor.
She dealt with her diagnosis of motor neurone disease in as "unfazed" a manner as she could, latterly communicating via an electronic notepad.
I had just read Greekonomics, her book on the Greek economy and Euro crisis, and I was so surprised by how engaging she made the dreary business of triple-dips and fiscal cliffs that I half forgot that she had latterly become better known as someone who took penalty points on her driving licence for her ex-husband and then lied about it, rather than a big-brained economist.
Following Firefly, Baccarin became known as a sci-fi specialist, and featured in the recent, now-defunct remake of the 1980s series, V. Her experience on both those shows made Baccarin a regular visitor to the annual Comic-Con convention, and prepared her for the sort of fan fixation she has latterly experienced with Homeland.
As the Secretary General of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) she has latterly focused on addressing root causes of conflict, bringing an understanding of gender into the multilateral system and the importance of women decision making and peace processes.
Behind this facade, which caused her no little personal unhappiness, was a kind, down-to-earth woman who never severed her links with Southend, near where she was born, never forgot old friends (her Southend costume maker served her for over a generation) and sometimes made new ones as she did her shopping around Islington, north London, where latterly she lived.
She had many critics, particularly latterly because she made the mistake of using her personal popularity to stay on too long in Belfast, alienating the Unionists and causing a political stalemate, but the widely accepted reality was that it was only as a result of the force of her personality that the Good Friday agreement was ever signed.
Latterly she became "mother of the house".
