Jodie Foster’s son used to think she was a construction worker.
The 55-year-old actress – who is mother to 19-year-old Charlie and 16-year-old Kit – never wanted her kids to know she was famous "at all".
She admitted: "I didn’t want them to know about my celebrity at all. I remember when my son was about four, he thought I was a construction worker."
While July is Pride Month, the ‘Hotel Artemis’ actress – who came out as gay at the Golden Globe Awards in 2013 – admitted she celebrates every day.
She told PorterEdit magazine: "Every day is gay pride day for me."
In the wake of the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements, Jodie thinks a lot of women are regretting the fact they weren’t more confident in their teens.
She said: "I don’t think there is a woman I know, who doesn’t look back on when they were 15, 16, 17 or 18, who doesn’t put their hand on their head and say: ‘Why did I do that? Why was I like that? Why wasn’t I confident? Why didn’t I say no?’ "
And the former child star thinks her own "weird" upbringing helped protect her from potential abuse in Hollywood.
She explained: "The weird cauldron that made me - working from the time I was three years old, supporting my family by the time that I was seven, super-strong mom, over-confident personality, celebrity young enough that I learned to be stand-offish…
"I think there’s a whole bunch of reasons why I didn’t have the same path as someone who came to Hollywood at 22 with two cents in her pocket and just wanted more than anything else to be an actor; it’s just a different life."
Jodie Foster shielded sons from fame
