In 2003, she was cast in Pinay Pie with Ai-Ai delas Alas and Assunta De Rossi under Star Cinema on her second film with Jose Javier Reyes after her pairing with Aga Muhlach in Narinig Mo Na Ba ang L8est?.
After her retirement in film and her regular television work for GMA Network at the time, she decided to go back to Los Angeles after marrying and starting a family.
Jimenez grew up in the Los Ángeles area where she studied at Bishop Amat High School in La Puente, California.
She was accepted at UCLA but decided to forgo schooling to move to the Philippines; most recently she had a college degree from a university in Australia.
On September 29, 2008, Jimenez suffered serious injuries in a car accident in Urdaneta City, Pangasinan (coming from a Baguio taping for ABC TV5's "Philippines Scariest Challenge").