Eckes, daughter of Turkish immigrants from Eskişehir, completed her Abitur high school diploma in 1995[1] in Leverkusen, where her father was employed as a worker in a chemical and pharmaceutical company.

She also presented the World Music Awards with Ole Tillmann and Deutschlands beste Doppelgänger, a look-alike-show on Saturday nights with Mike Krüger.

This was spun off into a separate programme entitled Formel Exclusiv in which she presented lifestyle and glamour themes nominally related to Formula One.

– Die Lust zu leben and also assumed presentation of Bosporus Trend and RTL II Jahresrückblick, an end-of-year review of 2004 and 2005.

In 2007, Eckes hosted the second season of Let’s Dance Again with Hape Kerkeling and also the episode Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – The great RTL-Special.