The daughter of a Mexican mother and a German father, the football player Dieter Huppenkothen, she was born in Mexico City.

After leaving school, Huppenkothen studied in Mexico City taking the subject International Relations.

In an interview with German tabloid Bild, Huppenkothen mentioned that she chose this subject because she wanted to be the Mexico ambassador to Germany at that time.

After a TV competition, she won a job as a sports journalist at the Mexican station Televisa Deportes.

For the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, she was again a presenter for Televisa's coverage of the Mexico national team, during which time she generated considerable attention,[5] even coming amongst the top five searches in Singapore.