She has studied Literature and Languages in Mexico, Paris and the United States.
Her staple show Intimamente Shanik was a pioneer in Mexican Television in handling previously censored subjects such as sex, divorces, infidelity, etc.
She has a show business column with interviews of celebrities in the best-selling gossip magazine in México: “TVNOTAS” She has a daily radio show Shanik en Fórmula broadcast through Radio Fórmula in Mexico, Latin America and USA which airs from Monday to Sunday.
She is the author of Muy cerca del ombligo (1985) a satire about the showbiz world in México and she also wrote “Más cornadas da el Hombre” a book about bullfighters.
She participated as herself in the soap opera “el triunfo del amor” with the main actor William Levy in 2010.