Following the dismantling of ORTF, she turned to a culinary career and opened her first restaurant, consisting of a bar and two tables in 1978, not far from the Folies Bergère.

Then she hosted culinary shows including Les P'tits Secrets de Babette for France 3 in 1990, columns with Sophie Davant in the show C'est au program and Télématin on France 2, C'est Meilleur le matin on France 3, and for three years La Cuisine de Babette on Gourmet TV, Joël Robuchon's channel.

She opened a restaurant in Paris under the same name as the one in Poissy and plans to franchise La Table de Babette in Dubai, Las Vegas and Tangier.

She contested Paris's 17th constituency at the 2017 French legislative election but came in sixth place in the first round.

[6] She was a candidate in the 2024 French legislative election in Yvelines's 7th constituency for the National Rally-Les Republicans (UXD).