Lisa Curry has always lived a life in the public eye — from babies and break-ups to plastic surgery and weddings, her milestones have played out in the pages of magazines. But there was one thing this determined former athlete could not change or control. And she’s still reeling from the massive loss.
A high performer in everything she does, at 60 she can look back on towering highs, resilience through the lows, a life filled with love, joy, disappointment, and in recent years profound loss. The loss of her daughter and her mother. Her "bookends", as she calls them. She has been fundamentally changed by it.
Lisa, says her friend Rose Fydler, "Seems to glow in public, she has thrived on it. In the heyday, in the 80s and 90s when magazines were big, she would have moved tens of thousands of copies."Her friend Janet Hine says the world grew up with Lisa and her family. "I think everyone just grew up with each child that was born. Everybody felt that they knew them [Lisa's family].
Harry told her parents they would have to get her teeth straightened because "she's going to have her photo taken a lot". Lisa was 10 years old.She loved swimming and training so much, "Mum never had to wake me up. Some days I was so excited I'd sleep in my togs," Lisa remembers. That never changed in the two decades that were to come.
At the Brisbane Commonwealth Games in 1982, in front of a home crowd, she would win three gold medals, breaking a Commonwealth record in the 200-metre medley. "The crowd lifted the roof off that pool." The pair married in 1986 — she was 23, he 22. "We thought we were mature," Lisa recalls. It was the Queensland sports' wedding of the year. "It was 80s over-the-top," Grant's sister Melinda Kenny says.
Former swimmer and friend Georgie Parkes says the pair were alike. "Jaimi had very many traits of her mother. She was strong-willed, she was very determined, even from a tiny little tot.
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