Career
Pini also co-hosted the weekly televised New South Wales lotto draw for twelve years. In 1976 Pini entered her first beauty pageant, winning the title of Mission West Coast. As a result, she automatically qualified for the Mission Australasia Beachgirl competition, which was held in Perth in March that year.
After the Mission World Contest she toured England and Scotland calling games of bingo.
Pini also appeared as a topless "Page 3 girl" in The Sun newspaper and was the cover model for the December 1977 United States edition of Penthouse magazine. She was photographed in France by Patrick Lichfield for the 1979 Unipart calendar.
In 1978 she returned to Australia and was selected as the inaugural Australian Playmate of the Month, appearing in the first Australian edition of Playboy magazine, which was issued in February 1979. On 3 December 1980 Pini married Stephen Fitzsimmons, a real estate executive, in Bunbury.
Fitzsimmons was also Pini"s second cousin.
She is currently married to Garry Carpenter and resides in Camden Haven, New South Wales.
