Sometimes Stateside, we lose track of just how big a deal Liz Cambage is in her native country of Australia.
Australia-based Foxtel Magazine understands, hence why she is being featured in an upcoming edition of the magazine.
Cambage is one of four women from the realm of Australian women’s sports that are on the cover of Foxtel’s March 2020 edition. The other three are Ellyse Perry, Charlotte Caslick and Tayla Harris.
Perry made her name as a member of both the Australian cricket team as well as the Australian soccer team. Caslick hails from Queensland and at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, won a gold medal in women’s rugby team competition. Harris also hails from Queensland and is a boxer in addition to playing Australian rules football.
Cambage also did a photo shoot for Foxtel. Photo shoots are something she has become used to over the years – including for last year’s ESPN Body Issue.
I grew up in a house where naked bodies weren’t sexualised. I remember growing up at the pool and going to the beach and just being a nudie rudie, and it kind of stuck with me for life.
–Liz Cambage, Las Vegas Aces (Foxtel Magazine)
But growing up here in Australia, I didn’t really feel beautiful until I moved to America when I was 19.
–Liz Cambage, Las Vegas Aces (Foxtel Magazine)
She has also been criticized for her outspokenness and wearing her emotions on her sleeve from time to time, but wants people to know that there is another side to “Lizzie.”
I tend to forget I’m a role model; I don’t think of myself like that. I just someone living their life, being me. And if me being me is getting other people to be themselves, well, that’s pretty cool.
–Liz Cambage, Las Vegas Aces (Foxtel Magazine)
The year 2020 will be a busy one for Cambage. Not only is she expected to return to WNBA action with the Aces in pursuit of a WNBA championship, there is also the Tokyo Olympics where her Australian Opals hope to avenge its disappointing Rio 2016 where they were barely knocked off the medal stand.
