Note to gentlemen who prefer blondes: she’s not interested in a one-night stand.
Former CNN anchor Brooke Baldwin said she craves “more intimacy” in her relationships — and gave The Post a clue about the next steps in her career.
Baldwin, 47, opened up about what she wants from relationships in her latest tell-all Substack post, just weeks after her candid confession that she loves sex but turned down opportunities to sleep with four different men.
Brooke Baldwin says she craves “more intimacy” in relationships after revealing last month that she turned down opportunities to sleep with four men. Brooke Baldwin / Facebook
“I don’t want less intimacy. I want more,” she wrote in the post published Sunday.
“I love being deeply known, and knowing someone deeply in return,” she added. “Instead I crave spaciousness — in partnership or out of it.”
Baldwin’s latest essay also offered a tantalizing clue about her professional future.
The former anchor revealed that she is “building something of my own now” and added parenthetically: “we start shooting in two weeks!!!” She did not provide additional details about the project on her blog.
But in a statement to The Post, Baldwin revealed that she has spent the past several months developing an independent journalism project called “America, Tell Me Everything,” which will take her around the country reporting on women from different backgrounds.
The former CNN anchor wrote that she doesn’t want less intimacy in her relationships: “I want more.” CNN
“After twenty-plus years in mainstream media, I’m doing journalism on my terms,” Baldwin told The Post on Wednesday, adding that she plans to tell stories with and about women “whose lives and experiences may look nothing like mine or each other’s.”
The revelations come after Baldwin stunned readers last month by dishing about her sex life, revealing that her rejected suitors include a man who “used to run a country” and another who “literally flew in just to take me to dinner.”
While she declined each opportunity, she left little doubt about her enthusiasm for sex itself.
“And y’all know … I love sex. If I may be so bold, I’m pretty damn good at it,” she wrote in the July 19 post.
Baldwin, 47, said she wants to be “deeply known” by a partner while also maintaining “spaciousness” for herself. Lev Radin/Shutterstock
Although Baldwin stressed that casual sex remained “very much on the table,” she said she was choosing not to partake during this stage of her life so she could preserve her energy for other priorities.
Baldwin wrote the piece on a flight back home from Paris, describing the trip as largely solo. She didn’t divulge who, if anyone, she spent time with in the famously romantic capital.
The scribe delved deeper into what she has learned about maintaining her independence and boundaries while in a relationship, writing that she has a tendency to nurture those around her to such an extent that she can lose sight of her own needs.
“I love to give. And if I’m not careful, it’s also one of the quickest ways I leave myself,” she wrote.
“I love being deeply known, and knowing someone deeply in return,” Baldwin wrote in her latest Substack essay. FilmMagic
The former cable news anchor said traveling alone has helped her recognize that pattern because she doesn’t have to worry about putting somebody else first or enforcing boundaries.
“When I travel alone, I don’t have to work at putting myself first,” Baldwin wrote.
“Trust me, I know how to set one. But at age 47, I’m still learning how to hold it when someone I love doesn’t want me to.”
Baldwin said she came away from her Paris trip with a new appreciation for boundaries, describing them not as a means of shutting out a partner but as a way of protecting herself.
“A boundary isn’t about keeping you out. It’s about keeping me intact,” she wrote.
Baldwin said she is trying to figure out how to maintain the same sense of independence she experiences while traveling alone when she is physically close to someone she loves.
Former CNN anchor Brooke Baldwin in an undated photo. Brooke Baldwin / Facebook
“I have to learn how to keep this same nearness to myself while standing three feet from someone I love,” she wrote. “How to turn toward myself without needing a passport to do it.”
“I happen to think I’m a very good partner. But being a good partner isn’t the same as staying intact and whole while partnered,” Baldwin added.
“F–k, that’s real mastery. And I’m still learning it.”
Baldwin’s marriage to British producer James Fletcher ended in 2023, when she filed for divorce in Manhattan after nearly five years together.
At the time, she said the pair had chosen to “go our separate ways” and wished Fletcher “nothing but the best.”
In her July Substack post, Baldwin revealed that six months earlier, she believed she was going to marry someone else.
“Six months ago, I thought I was going to marry someone this year (and I was excited about it),” she wrote at the time.
“Heartbreak has its own timeline.”
Baldwin reflected on relationships and boundaries after spending most of a week traveling alone in Paris. Brooke Baldwin / Facebook
In her latest post, Baldwin reflected on her two decades in television news and how the demands of her career once gave her a sense of independence that she now seeks through solitude.
“For twenty years, I had a job that gave me something that was all mine. A camera. A deadline,” she wrote, adding that for 11 of those years she had “two intense hours of live television every day where I had no choice but to show the eff up.”
“That daily grind of TV news gave me somewhere I always had to come back to — or, if I’m being honest, somewhere to hide,” Baldwin wrote.
“That hiding place is gone. The Universe took it away from me.”
Baldwin said the attention surrounding her personal revelations in recent weeks did not inspire the project but “reaffirmed my beliefs and my fire.”
She added: “So, enough about my dating life. I’m much more interested in leaning into my life’s work — and that of women across this country. Telling their stories with them, on our terms.”
The former cable news star said she is learning how to remain “intact and whole while partnered.” Facebook / Brooke Baldwin
Baldwin, who left CNN in 2021 after 13 years at the network, added that there is now “no 24/7 newsroom noise to drown me out” and said the job “never quite loved me back the way I loved it.”
She previously alleged that her CNN exit was not entirely voluntary despite publicly framing her departure that way at the time.
In a 2024 Vanity Fair essay, Baldwin wrote that a deteriorating relationship with an executive producer led her to ask then-CNN president Jeff Zucker to move him off her team.
Baldwin claimed Zucker rejected the request, which she called “the beginning of the end,” and later wrote that her agent informed her that “Jeff wanted me out.”
The Post has sought comment from CNN. Zucker did not return requests for comment.
