Melbourne, Nov 19 (ANI): Australia's first Lingerie Football League star Chloe Butler is the face of the league in its move to establish a competition in Australia by 2013.
The 24-year-old former athelete will play in the first exhibition match in Sydney in February, and wants to lure more Australian women to the game.
But Butler warns about the health hazards involved in the game.
"With such a high-intensity, high-impact sport ... you get high-impact breaks, broken noses, dislocated and broken ribs,'" the Daily Telegraph quoted her as saying.
"I am riddled with bruises every day. I think the guy at Starbucks thinks I get beat up by my boyfriend."
In fact it was Butler's boyfriend Travis Waddell, the Canberra Raiders hooker, who taught her how to tackle.
Butler, like many other Australian female athletes with nowhere to go, as stress fractures curtailed her London Olympic hurdling dreams, and there were limited avenues to pursue a professional sports career.
Having represented her country in the 400m hurdles before the injuries, she jumped into modelling, and at a Playboy shoot in the Gold Coast she was urged to try out for the LFL.
She is now earning fame and fortune as an Aussie enforcer in front of a global television audience of 65 million.
The league features 12 teams, playing seven-on-seven, full-contact grid iron with modified rules barring kicks.
Its top stars are rumoured to earn up to six figures through playing, endorsements and appearances, and they play only seven games a season.
"We [Australians] are tough, I encourage all the rugby girls to have a go at the league, it's an amazing platform for women in sport and I think they have the potential to do really well.
"I'm hoping to open up that portal between Australia and America," she added. (ANI)
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