In interviews , Foster rarely talks about her private life . She has explained that she " values privacy against all else " due to having spent most of her life in the public eye . She lives in Los Angeles , and had two sons while partnered with Cydney Bernard . She met Bernard on the set of '' Sommersby '' ( 1993 ) and was in a relationship with her from 1993 to 2008 . In April 2014 , Foster married actress and photographer Alexandra Hedison . She stated in 2011 that having children made her take on fewer projects : " It is a big sacrifice to leave home . I want to make sure that I feel passionate about the movies I do because it is a big sacrifice ... Even if you take the average movie shoot of four months – you have three weeks ' prep , press duties here and abroad , dubbing and looping , magazine covers , events and premieres – that 's eight months out of a year . That 's a long time . If you do two movies back-to-back , you 're never going to see your children . " Foster 's sexual orientation became subject to public discussion in 1991 when activists protesting against the alleged homophobia in '' The Silence of the Lambs '' claimed that she was a closeted lesbian in publications such as '' OutWeek '' and '' The Village Voice '' . While she had been in a relationship with Bernard for a long time , Foster first publicly acknowledged it in a speech at '' The Hollywood Reporter '' 's " Women in Entertainment " breakfast honoring her in 2007 . In 2013 , she addressed coming out in a speech after receiving the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 70th Golden Globe Awards , which led many news outlets to describe her as lesbian or gay , although some sources noted that she did not use the words " gay " or " lesbian " in her speech
70th Golden Globe Awards
70th Golden Globe Awards
Jodie Foster