Posted on 12/13/2007 11:23:09 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
December 12, 2007
Jodie Foster comes out... finally
The notoriously private Oscar-winning actress has acknowledged her lesbian partner in public for the first time
Veronica Schmidt
After guarding her private life fiercely for 15 years, Hollywood actress Jodie Foster has publicly acknowledged her lesbian partner.
The Oscar-winning actress thanked "my beautiful Cydney" after winning an award at the Women in Entertainment Power 100 breakfast in Los Angeles.
She went on to praise Cydney Bernard, saying the film producer "sticks with me through all the rotten and the bliss".
Despite more than a decade of speculation, questions over the paternity of her two sons and critics calling for her be “out and proud”, Foster has refused to discuss her sexuality.
The 44-year-old maintained her silence when, earlier this year, gay American magazine Out put a picture of her on its cover above the words “The glass closet – why the stars won’t come out and play.” Inside, it was argued “the stars aren’t willing to make the jump to being officially labelled queer and all that it represents in the business.”
Now that Foster has, reactions are mixed. On American website Gay.com, readers posted comments praising the actress for coming out, while others expressed anger that it was considered news.
“It is her life to live as she pleases. Why do so many gays worry about who is and who is not gay?” asked one reader
“Whether or not Jodie comes out is definitely her own decision, but she would provide an excellent positive role model to GLBT [gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender] people everywhere. I think that is why we get excited when someone comes out,” posted another.
Foster is one of only a few Hollywood actresses to have publicly acknowledged they are lesbian. Comedian Ellen de Generes made headlines when she came out in 1997, as did her partner Portia de Rossi when she was photographed kissing then girlfriend Francesca Gregorini in 2001.
Foster reportedly met Bernard on the set of Sommersby in 1993. The actress later gave birth to sons Charles, 9, and Kit, 6.
The actress found world-wide fame at 14, playing a prostitute opposite Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver before going on to star in Bugsy Malone, Freaky Friday, The Silence of the Lambs and Nell.
Her latest movie Nim’s Island is due for release in May next year.
There is not one red blooded man out there that would admit he cares if a woman’s a lesbian or not as long as she’s hot ;D!
“Geez, this was certainly a surprise, just like when Liberace turned out to be gay. I mean, who knew?”
ROFL. Very good.
“Uh...aren’t y’all leaving something out?”
LOL, yes, I think they DID leave “something” out. Literally. Nothing was ever in.
John Mahoney is gay?
“Any takers on Helen Hunt?”
I’ll take her. But then at my age and looks, I’d take just about anything in a skirt that would take me.
“What kind of women do you like?” I like the ones who like me. I’m easy.
Even Harrison Ford couldn't get me to suspend disbelief after Anne's very public frolicking with Ellen Degenerate.
Bad, BAD picture of Jodie Foster. She’s really looking (more than) her age in that shot.
And somewhere in Washington, John Hinckley comes to the shattering realization that throwing his life away for Jodie Foster was all in vain...
}:-)4
I have to agree with sofaman and longtree on this one.
Julia Roberts is not attractive in the slightest.
Also, her politics makes her "ugly" also.
"Republican - found in the dictionary between reptile and repugnant."
When I think of a beautiful actress, someone like Téa Leoni comes to mind.
I agree it’s a bad picture of her, yet she still looks good. Says a lot about how amazingly attractive the woman is.
It’s not so much that we men think we can convert famous lesbians, it’s that it doesn’t matter. Whether they are straight, lesbian or asexual makes no difference. They are still hot. We really aren’t that hard to figure out. As Jeff Foxworthy once noted, all men want “is a beer and to see something nekkid.”
Amen and thank you
“I never understood how people could consider Julia Roberts beautiful either”
I’m with you...I never saw her as very attractive and my own wife can’t understand why I don’t think she’ pretty!
She reminds me of the waif like borderlines and anorexics I used to encounter when I worked psych as a nurse!
Being interested in how well they loo is kinda perverted.
<}B^)
Worst thread of the month.
and with lesbians, we get the latter, very happy ecstatic latter as well, without the troublesome bother of having to focus out hairy man ass.
Good for her. Always thought she has lived her life with dignity and out of the public eye. Too bad there are those who are constantly looking to ‘out’ people. People’s private lives should be just that.
Tammy Bruce is good looking.
lol.
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