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Jodie Foster Talked About Parenting and Adoption

Posted by Summer M

August 16, 2007 |

Being a mom is hard, even when you’re a famous actress it seems. In a great interview for People.com Jodie foster talked about her role as a mother to her boys. While I’m not overly fond of celeb interviews that try to pass them off as “just like you and me, but with tons more money and a nanny” this one had a couple universal truth in it that stood out.

“When my kids were tiny, I was caught up in the identity of being a mom,” the 44-year-old, double Oscar-winner – and mother of Charlie, 9, and Kit, 6 – tells More magazine for its September issue. “You’re still changing diapers, and it feels like it’s going to last forever.”

I miss those hazy early baby days, when it seemed like life was going to crawl on forever between diaper changes and feedings. Hours spent on the couch nursing and napping and letting the world rush on by outside. But before I knew it they were crawling, then walking, then running and suddenly the world inside is rushing by as fast as the world outside. But even as I miss their baby days I’m still rewarded by getting to see the kind of boys they are developing into. Watching them learn and explore and grow is exciting and humbling and amazing.

“But there’s absolutely no sort of acknowledgment or reward for this – except for the intangible of my kids growing up to be wonderful people.”


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