[4] At the age of 18 she moved to Madrid,[4] and since February 1986, she collaborated in the newspaper ABC, taking charge of a weekly section called "Café con Mila Santana", where she interviewed: Andrés Segovia,[5] Antonio Mingote, Cayetana de Alba, Leonard Cohen,[6] Plácido Domingo, Terenci Moix, Antonio Asensio, José María García Perez, Miguel Bosé, Pedro Almodóvar,[4] José María Ruiz-Mateos, Carmen Sevilla,[4] Boris Becker, etc.
[9] After joining the professional journalist Jaime Peñafiel [es] in the publication La Revista (1984), she worked in a radio show called Directamente Encara conducted by Encarna Sánchez in Cadena COPE.
[9] During her television career, Ximénez made statements about the private life of the singer Isabel Pantoja which ended in court on several occasions.
[22] On 16 June 2020, on the program Sálvame she announced that she had been diagnosed with lung cancer the previous week, which was the reason for her absence from television during those days.
[27] She was cremated the following day in Cementerio de la Almudena, with plans to have her ashes moved to Amsterdam, where her daughter and grandchildren reside.