LOS Angeles – A federal judge yesterday rejected claims of a former Mouseketeer that clinical depression should keep her out of prison for federal conviction of stock fraud.

Barring any further appeals, Darlene Gillespie will turn herself in on Monday to begin a two-year federal prison sentence.

She’ll start her stint in Dublin, Calif. at a minimum security lock-up southeast of San Francisco.

Gillespie was convicted in December on 13 counts of conspiracy, stock fraud, obstruction of justice and perjury.

“This gives this case a much needed dose of finality,” said Assistant U.S. Attorney Jack Weiss.

The prosecutor said that the Dublin lock-up has a complete medical facility and can care for Gillespie if needed.

Gillespie was an original castmember of TV’s “Mickey Mouse Club” when the show debuted in 1955. The perky redhead was a mouseketeer main stay until 1959.

While Gillespie’s show business career never took off, she eventually became a surgical nurse who earned as much as $75,000 a year.

But in 1992, prosecutors claimed Gillespie and her then-boyfriend and now-husband conspired to invest in stocks even though they didn’t have the money to back it up.

In her written appeal to remain free, Gillespie and her lawyer claimed they had a good chance of winning an appeal and that the former mouseketeer’s depression would get worse in prison.

However, U.S. District Court Judge Lourdes Baired said Gillespie’s appeal chances were slim and did not even address the depression claim as she rejected Gillespie’s appeal.

“If the judge found the [depression] claims to be meritorious, she would have ruled differently or at least mentioned it,” Weiss said.

Gillespie was not in court yesterday. Her defense lawyer Charles Rondeau said his client was doing okay.

“Under the circumstances she’s doing relatively well,” Rondeau said.