In 1987, she won the FAMAS Award as Best Child Actress for Ang Daigdig Ay Isang Butil Na Luha.

Her next films were Mga Anghel ng Diyos (1986) and Ang Daigdig Ay Isang Butil Na Luha (1986), for which she received the FAMAS Best Child Actress Award.

[citation needed] In 2018, she joined the newly created political alliance Hugpong ng Pagbabago and in the 2019 election won a congressional seat in the House of Representatives under the ticket of Joy Belmonte, succeeding her husband.

[7] She sought re-election in 2022, this time under Lakas-CMD and the Malayang QC ticket of Mike Defensor,[1] but lost to Ralph Tulfo.

[8] In 2024, Hipolito was charged with graft over the theft of financial aid for government workers in Quezon City during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021.