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Why Jodie Foster Hid Her Acting Career From Her 2 Sons
View Date:2024-12-23 14:30:35
Jodie Foster just wanted to foster a normal childhood for her boys.
That's why, when the two-time Oscar winner sons Charles "Charlie" Bernard Foster, 25, and Christopher "Kit" Bernard Foster, 22, were growing up, she kept quiet about her job. As she put it, "I guess I just didn't want them to know me that way."
"I wanted them to know me as their mom and the person who went away to work and stuff," Jodie explained during her Jan. 19 appearance on The View. "I just didn't want them to be confused about what I did for a living."
In fact, the Silence of the Lambs alum's oldest spent his toddler years thinking she worked in construction.
"I brought him to set one day and I bought him a little plastic tool belt and stuff," recalled Jodie, who shares her kids with former partner Cydney Bernard. "And I was like, ‘Yeah, and this is this set and this set and this set.' And for a really long time, he thought I was a construction worker."
Nowadays, the Panic Room actress' son are well-aware of her decades-long acting career. And though Charlie has followed his mom's footsteps into the entertainment industry, according to Jodie, he and his younger brother "have no interest in watching my movies with me."
"I think they're going to catch True Detective," the 61-year-old said, "'cause they're really into that."
However, Jodie noted that there are "a few films that I would never show them because I would be worried about being teased."
One example is Nell, the 1995 movie about a young woman who was raised in isolation and struggles to communicate with the outside world.
"They do tease me often about that," noted Jodie, whose performance in the film landed her a fourth Oscar nomination, "even though they've never seen the movie."
To see other celebs kids who take after their famous parents, keep reading.
Like mother like daughter. After becoming a household name on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, the former supermodel Yolanda Hadid's daughter Gigi Hadid broke into the fashion industry as a teen and has been rocking runways ever since.
Clint Eastwood's fifth child, son Scott Eastwood, has followed in his movie star footsteps by starring in films like Suicide Squad, Snowden, The Fate of the Furious and Pacific Rim.
The Bon Jovi singer and his third child is his mini-me. Pictured: The two appear on either sides of with the musician's wife, Dorothea Bongiovi, and their youngest son Romeo Bongiovi at the Jefferson Awards Foundation' 2017 DC National Ceremony at the Capital Hilton in Washington, DC. in 2017.
The look-alike duo is all smiles while attending a 2016 performance of Finding Neverland in the Big Apple.
Woah, the Marsden men's resemblance was uncanny at the 2017 SAG Awards.
Double take! The Real Housewives of Atlanta alum's daughter looks like her younger sister!
The soccer star has the cutest plus-one ever at the London premiere of Ronaldo.
The teen is following in her mom's footsteps as a budding model and a bombshell!
Mini-me indeed! Kate's daughter clearly inherited her momma's gorgeous looks.
Here posing for an Instagram snap before the Hot Pursuit premiere in Los Angeles, mom and her daughter have never looked more alike!
The two looked nearly identical at the Vanity Fair Oscars party in 2015.
With their matching jumpsuits, sleek hair and glasses, the two look more like twins than mother and daughter! "That moment when you realize you actually are becoming your mother #twinning #imnotmad," Willis joked on Instagram.
Pictured here in 2010, the pop icon's daughter is a fashionista just like her mama!
We'll make another exception for this fierce father-son duo: The soccer stud-turned-model and his son are sure dreamy.
The spunky morning show host celebrated her daughter's 14th birthday with this adorable pic. Look at that resemblance!
Once upon a time in Hollywood...the Kill Bill actress twinned with her daughter on the red carpet.
Little Blue stole the show at the 2017 Grammys, and she's totally #twinning with her pops!
The Days of Our Lives star and her daughter get in the holiday spirit at Disney On Ice Presents Frozen at the Staples Center.
The mother-daughter pair looked like virtual twinsies (especially with those matching bobs) at the Chanel fall-winter Haute Couture show in Paris.
Like mother, like daughter! The Oscar-winner and her daughter are both redheaded beauties.
The nearly identical stunning stars even dress the same!
The Fuller House star and her daughter are practically twins at the Summer TCA Press Tour.
The Last of the Mohicans and Lincoln star's young adult son, whose mother is French actress Isabelle Adjani, made his big runway debut at 2015 Paris Fashion Week, walking into the Chanel show with Julianne Moore.
The two stunned on the red carpet at the Olivier Awards in London.
If you didn't know better, you might've guessed they were sisters!
This apple certainly doesn't fall far from the tree!
Yup, we see Meryl's graceful looks in each of her daughters!
John Legend posted this baby photo of himself, looking exactly like baby Luna on Oct. 6, 2017
This bombshell mother-daughter duo never fail to turn heads.
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