Jodie Foster revealed that her children thought she worked in construction when they were young because she didn’t tell them she was an actress.
The Oscar winner made an appearance on The View Friday and opened up about her parenting style and why she didn’t initially share her career with her little ones when they were growing up.
“I don’t know why, I guess I just didn’t want them to know me that way,” Foster said. “I wanted them to know me as their mom and the person who went away to work and stuff. I just didn’t want them to be confused about what I did for a living.”
The Nyad star proceeded to recall what her older son, Charles Bernard, 25, thought she did when she went to a filming set each day.
“I brought my oldest son, he was probably about 3 — well, he...
The Oscar winner made an appearance on The View Friday and opened up about her parenting style and why she didn’t initially share her career with her little ones when they were growing up.
“I don’t know why, I guess I just didn’t want them to know me that way,” Foster said. “I wanted them to know me as their mom and the person who went away to work and stuff. I just didn’t want them to be confused about what I did for a living.”
The Nyad star proceeded to recall what her older son, Charles Bernard, 25, thought she did when she went to a filming set each day.
“I brought my oldest son, he was probably about 3 — well, he...
- 1/20/2024
- by Carly Thomas
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Actress and director Jodie Foster was awarded the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award at Sunday's (Jan. 13) Golden Globes ceremony. In her emotional speech, Foster basically came out of the closet for the first time publicly and also thanked her partner and mother to her two sons Charlie and Kit, Cydney Bernard.
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Cydney Bernard is a producer whom Foster met on the set of "Sommersby" in 1993, where Bernard was working as a production coordinator. Other credits to her name include "L.A. Story," "The Client," "Bean" and episodes of "The L Word" and "Off the Map."
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While Foster announced in the speech that she is single, which we take to mean that she and Bernard are no longer together romantically, they are sure to still be in other's lives, as they have always been the co-parents of their two sons,...
Related: Best & Worst of the Golden Globes
Cydney Bernard is a producer whom Foster met on the set of "Sommersby" in 1993, where Bernard was working as a production coordinator. Other credits to her name include "L.A. Story," "The Client," "Bean" and episodes of "The L Word" and "Off the Map."
Related: Celebrities who are out of the closet
While Foster announced in the speech that she is single, which we take to mean that she and Bernard are no longer together romantically, they are sure to still be in other's lives, as they have always been the co-parents of their two sons,...
- 1/14/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
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