Washington
(ANI):
Actress
Jodi
Foster
has
revealed
in
a
new
interview
that
growing
up
as
a
child
prodigy
was
a
rather
lonely
experience.
And,
she
also
opened
up
to
Parade
magazine
about
what
she
would
have
been
if
not
an
actress,
why
she's
never
fallen
in
love
and
where
it's
all
going.
"Being
a
child
prodigy
is
inherently
lonely.
I
was
one
of
them.
You're
different
from
other
kids.
No
one
else
can
understand.
There's
a
longing
to
connect,
a
craving
to
say,
'Here
is
the
deepest
part
of
me,
the
part
that
people
don"t
see," New
York
Post
quoted
her,
as
saying.
On
her
long
career,
the
two-time
Academy
Award
winning
actress
said:
"I've
been
working
for
42
years.
Sometimes
I
think,
'What
the
hell
are
you
doing?
What's
the
value
of
all
this?' I
have
fantasies
about
the
things
I
might
have
done.
I
wish
I'd
been
a
ski
bum
or
maybe
had
a
job
at
a
Starbucks
in
a
ski
place."
The
'Accused'
star
claims
to
have
never
fallen
in
love,
saying:
"Oh,
my
life
is
basically
from
the
head
up.
I'm
definitely
not
proud
of
that.
I'm
very
analytical."
When
asked
about
her
childhood
attitude
toward
acting,
she
said:
"To
me,
acting
didn't
seem
like
much
of
a
profession.
My
mom
always
said,
'By
the
time
you're
16,
your
career
will
be
over.
So
what
do
you
want
to
do
then?'
She
was
correct.
Most
child
actors'
careers
end
early.
They're
lost."
The
American
actress
is
a
mother
to
two
sons:
Charles
Bernard
Foster,
10,
and
Kit
Bernard
Foster,
8,
and
on
being
a
working
mom,
she
said:
"I'm
still
not
sure
where
I'm
going
in
my
life.
There
are
times
when
I
don't
really
know
what
I
am
here
for.
When
I
had
my
kids,
I
was
burnt
out
on
the
film
business
again
and
wondering
if
this
new
identity
as
a
parent
was
going
to
be
fulfilling
enough.
I
was
forced
to
ask
these
really
hard
questions
about
myself:
Is
being
a
mother
everything?
Are
you
supposed
to
lose
yourself
in
the
process
of
being
a
mother?"
She
is
not
good
terms
with
her
mother,
on
which
she
said:
"A
parent's
love
for
her
children
is
unconditional.
I
don't
think
the
reverse
is
true.
In
some
ways,
my
mother's
life
was
given
meaning
through
me.
She
didn't
have
my
opportunities.
I
had
to
take
care
of
her,
and
that
pretty
much
meant
I
had
to
wake
up
and
go
to
work."
On
being
a
child
actor,
she
said:
"People
ask
me
if
I
missed
anything
by
not
having
a
normal
childhood.
The
truth
is,
if
I'd
been
an
ambassador's
daughter
or
grown
up
on
a
farm
in
Missouri,
I
wouldn't
have
had
a
normal
childhood
either.
I
had
the
only
childhood
I
knew."