[4] Babalola was born in Guy's Hospital[5] in Southwark to Nigerian Yoruba parents and grew up in East London.

She pitched the Cecile Emeke web series Ackee & Saltfish, assistant producing the pilot episode.

She named Insecure by Issa Rae and Larry Wilmore, Brown Sugar, When Harry Met Sally, My Best Friend's Wedding, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, Lovesick, and New Girl as her favourite romcoms.

[15][2][19] On September 10, 2021, the television show she wrote, executive produced and created, Big Age, premiered on Channel 4.

In 2018, Babalola sent a tweet with a photoshopped image of her and Michael B. Jordan, asking Twitter to help find her "holiday romance" as a joke.

[24] Babalola changed many of the stories to make the female characters more empowered, and to demonstrate consent and love without suffering.

In August 2020, Babalola began teasing her next novel, "a collegiate rom-com set in an Afro-Caribbean Society in a UK university, where enemies become friends and eventually lovers".