'My life was pretty glamorous, but I never got to enjoy it': Football star's ex-girlfriend reveals what life was really like as a WAG (and it's not all red carpets and free champagne)

  • Cassie Lane has spoken candidly on what her life was really like as a WAG
  • The former model dated AFL star Alan Didak for 16 months from 2004 to 2006
  • The Melbourne former WAG said her life was a far cry from the 'glamorous' world

By Cindy Tran for Daily Mail Australia

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The former girlfriend of AFL star Alan Didak has spoken candidly on what her life as a WAG was really like off the field.

Cassie Lane - who dated the Collingwood Magpies player for 16 months from 2004 to 2006 - said her life was a far cry from the 'glamorous' world.

And while her glitzy life of dating a footballer looked dazzling from the outside, Ms Lane, from Melbourne, revealed that all wasn't quite as it seemed.

Cassie Lane - who dated AFL star Alan Didak - opened up on what life was really like as a WAG

Cassie Lane - who dated AFL star Alan Didak - opened up on what life was really like as a WAG

Ms Lane dated the Collingwood Magpies player for 16 months from 2004 to 2006 (pictured together at the Brownlow Medal awards in 2006 - the night she was named 'worst dressed')

Ms Lane dated the Collingwood Magpies player for 16 months from 2004 to 2006 (pictured together at the Brownlow Medal awards in 2006 - the night she was named 'worst dressed')

'My life was pretty glamorous, but I never got to enjoy it. I was too engrossed in how stupendously I was failing at being a WAG,' she wrote for Fairfax Media.

'My opinions deemed irrelevant (whatever I had to say was never going to be as impressive as my boyfriend's ability to scissor-kick a near impossible goal), my body was the only tool I could use to verify my worth. 

Ms Lane - who started her modelling career at the age of 16 - went on to grace the catwalks of Milan and Los Angeles.

But despite having modelled overseas for years, said she she had 'never felt so physically inadequate as I did when I was a WAG'.

And while her glitzy life of dating a footballer looked dazzling from the outside, Ms Lane revealed that all wasn't quite as it seemed

And while her glitzy life of dating a footballer looked dazzling from the outside, Ms Lane revealed that all wasn't quite as it seemed

She said being named as 'worst dressed' when she accompanied her then partner to the Brownlow Medal awards in 2006 was 'the best thing that could have happened'

She said being named as 'worst dressed' when she accompanied her then partner to the Brownlow Medal awards in 2006 was 'the best thing that could have happened'

She said being named as 'worst dressed' when she accompanied her then partner to the Brownlow Medal awards in 2006 was 'the best thing that could have happened'. 

'I mistakenly believed that if people admired me for the way I looked, I'd be validated. But by whom exactly? And by what means? Worst or best dressed, you're still being treated like an object,' she added.

Ms Lane spoke of having to endure a media storm outside their home for weeks after she found herself on the front page of a Sunday newspaper following a bitter argument with Didak at a nightclub.

Last month, the former model described life as a WAG was 'like a cult' in an interview with the Herald Sun last month.

She spoke of how she felt inadequate due to the expectations placed on her simply because she was dating an AFL player.

The Melbourne woman has just published a book about her life called How to Dress a Dummy

The Melbourne woman has just published a book about her life called How to Dress a Dummy

Last month, she spoke of how she felt inadequate due to the expectations placed on her simply because she was dating an AFL player

Last month, she spoke of how she felt inadequate due to the expectations placed on her simply because she was dating an AFL player

She also revealed she felt she was living in her then partner's shadow in a 'glorified role' which left her feeling self conscious about her body.

'I think the AFL culture is still very sexist, women are not represented well, they are under-represented even though they make up half of the supporter base,' Ms Lane said. 

'It is this glorified role, every Melbourne girl wants to be a WAG because we are taught it is this amazing, celebrated, venerated role, but actually when you get there you are celebrated not because of who you are, you are celebrated because of your partner's achievements and there is a hierarchy.'

Cassie Lane has just published a book about her life called How to Dress a Dummy.

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