Jodie Foster’s 2 Children: Everything to Know About Charlie and Kit
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- UPDATED JULY 25, 2024
by Tasha Mayberry
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Jodie Foster has been in the spotlight for over five decades, but she’s also raised sons Charlie and Kit while maintaining her career. The True Detective: Night Country actress welcomed her firstborn, Charles Bernard, in 1998. Three years later, she gave birth to her son Christopher “Kit” Bernard. Foster shares her children with her former partner, Cydney Bernard, whom she split from in 2008. The actress married Alexandra Hedison in 2014. Foster has spoken about the importance of maintaining her kids’ private lives when they were younger. “If you had to fight for a life that felt real and honest and normal against all odds, then maybe you too would value privacy above all else,” she said at the 2013 Golden Globes.
Charles "Charlie" Bernard Foster, 26
Foster first became a mother on July 20, 1998, when she gave birth to her son, Charles Bernard Foster. She announced that she was expecting in March of the same year and told reporters, “I know everybody’s been through pregnancy, but it’s still a big deal.” At the time, she was in a long-term relationship with Bernard. Charles, who goes by Charlie, was born in Los Angeles and raised by both of his mothers. As Charlie got older, Foster said he started becoming more interested in the Hollywood lifestyle. Speaking with More magazine in 2007, the actress shared, “[He’ll say] ‘I want to be in movies. Why can’t you get me a job?’ Then I say, ‘You have to earn that. If you want to be an actor, you can start by doing a little theater.’ Then he says, ‘I’m not interested in that. I just want to be famous and see my face.
Christopher "Kit" Bernard Foster, 22
On September 29, 2001, Foster gave birth to her second son, Christopher Bernard Foster, whom she nicknamed Kit. When announcing her second pregnancy, Foster told gossip columnist Liz Smith, “I enjoyed being pregnant with Charlie and I look forward to this experience again. I am into all the health foods, yoga, and the rest of it.” Kit was born in L.A., where he grew up with his brother Charlie and two moms. “I have a psychological need to create a really safe, normal life for them [my kids], because if there was anything I missed in my childhood, that was it,” Foster told Psychologies Magazine in 2007. “I really craved having a routine, stable life and that’s what I’ve given to my kids.
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Jodie Foster has kept her relationship with photographer Alexandra Hedison very private. Though Foster famously declared that she was “single” when she accepted the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 2013 Golden Globes, she married Hedison in a private ceremony in April 2014 after dating for almost a year. “They are very private when they’re around people they don’t know,” a source told PEOPLE about Foster and Hedison. “But when they’re together, it can be like they’re in their own world.
