American actress and filmmaker Jodie Foster wanted her sons to look at her as a normal person and not as a celebrity mom, and so kept her acting career a secret from them. She wanted them to have a normal life as much as possible.
Jodi revealed on the talk show The View that to prevent her acting job from influencing how her now-adult sons saw her, she kept it a secret from them when they were younger.
“I guess I just didn’t want them to know me that way,” Foster, 61, explained. “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,” she continued.
The boys spent their early years believing that Jodie was a construction worker, even though she brought her oldest son, Charles ‘Charlie’ Bernard Foster, 25, to the set with her when he was three.
“I brought him to set one day and I bought him a little plastic tool belt and stuff,” she recalled. “And I was like, ‘Yeah, and this is this set’. And for a really long time, he thought I was a construction worker.” The Oscar-winning actress is also mother to son Christopher ‘Kit’ Bernard Foster, 22, whom she shares with former partner Cydney Bernard.
Although the boys’ exact realisation of their mother’s fame is unknown, Charlie has since followed in Jodie’s footsteps by performing in plays throughout school.
Despite her sons’ interest in the entertainment industry, the actress joked that they ‘have no interest in watching my movies with me’.
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