Penelope started out as a dancer. As Blake Winters, she performed with Tiffany Summers as Fire & Ice; they appeared together in a Penthouse pictorial.
She had her breasts enlarged from 86 cm / 34 inch C to 109 cm / 43 inch F, changed her stage name to Penelope Pumpkins, and began doing hardcore porn to boost her feature dancing career. She says she made 20 to 30 videos in 1988-1999.