[1] Maria Esmeralda Pimentel was born in Ciudad Guzmán, Jalisco, on September 8, 1989, to a Dominican father and a Mexican mother.

[4] On October 6, 2007, she participated with the winner Lupita González in Nuestra Belleza México 2007, both representing the state of Jalisco.

[6] Her first acting offer came in 2009 when the producer Pedro Damián gave her a small role in the telenovela Verano de amor, where she played the character "Ada".

[7] Three years later, in 2012 she worked in the telenovela Abismo de pasión, an Angelli Nesma Medina production, where she shared credits with Angelique Boyer and David Zepeda.

Few years after starring as a protagonist in Enamorándome de Ramón with José Ron and La bella y las bestias with Osvaldo Benavides, Pimentel announced that she would depart from Televisa as she quitted her contract with the television company for a time being, as she preferred to extend more creative freedom within her artistic and acting career by looking into different theater, television, and film projects.