Inspirational burns survivor, Turia Pitt was chosen to join model Jennifer Hawkins, the Today Show’s Lisa Wilkinson, Senator Penny Wong, actor Rachel Griffiths, journalist Jana Wendt and Carnival Cruises CEO, Ann Sherry to help find this year’s Australian Women’s Weekly Women of the Future.
“The day Turia Pitt walked into the photo shoot that ended up as a cover of Australia’s biggest-selling magazine, she owned the room,” says Helen McCabe, The Weekly‘s editor-in-chief.
“In the same studio, on the same day, and taking part in the same shoot, Jennifer Hawkins was having make-up applied while Penny Wong was joking about her preference for pants over a frock. Turia, 26, stood to one side, talking animatedly about how humbled she was to be among this calibre of women.”