Jodie Foster: sons are easier than daughters

Jodie Foster has said she’s glad she has sons because they’re “easy” compared to life with daughters.

The mum of ten year old Charles and seven year old Kit told Parade magazine recently: “Boys are easy.”

“I mean, there are just a lot of bruises when they’re young. With boys, you get a lot of accidental jabs in the eye and stepping on your feet, and those tantrums they cause when they don’t want to leave the toy store [but that’s it].”

She added that she’s keen for the boys not to follow in her “lonely” footsteps as a child star and she’s keen for them to pursue regular childhood activities, even if it means she doesn’t see that much of them: “They go to school all day, and then one wants to do T-ball and the other wants to do karate, so they’re actually gone until four-thirty.”

“I want them to have curiosity about things they don’t know, and a desire to see places bigger than where they grew up.”