Baskin grew up in Ardara, County Donegal, Ireland, and attended the local Wood School.[1] Her parents were Jack and Hilda Baskin (née Hanlon) and she has two sisters.[1] With RTÉ, she presented a television programme called Evening Extra from 1986 to 1988, and then had her own chat show named Bibi (1988-1992) called Its Bibi (1992-1994).[3] She left the broadcaster in 1994 to work in New York and Great Britain.[3] She returned briefly to RTÉ in 1998 to present The Saturday Show before working on different projects and, while contemplating her next move, decided to write a book.
A practitioner and advocate of Ayurvedic healing medicine and therapies, Baskin visited India with a friend in 2001 and discovered a property in Kerala which had been built in 1868 and inhabited for more than a century by the Raheem family, which she turned into a heritage guest house and hotel.[2][4] The property opened for business in 2003, with 10 bedrooms, offering yoga and Ayurvedic treatments.[4]
Baskin is fluent in Irish and worked as a teacher of the language at the beginning of her career. She served as one of the judges on the 2008 RTÉ television programme, Fáilte Towers.[5] In 2015, she joined Cork's 96FM to host the morning radio talk show Opinion Line.[6]
