A long-time friend of Jodie Foster's said Monday the actress will tell her children who their birth father is when they turn 21.

Rev. Beverly Bates, mother of late Hollywood producer Randy Stone, said Foster "promised" to tell her children Charles, 14, and Kit, 12, who their father is when they turn 21.

Bater believes that her son is the father to Foster's children and hopes he is.

"Randy told me that Jodie said she'll tell the boys who their father is when they're 21...I would love to know if Randy is the boys' father," she said. "I personally think he gave Jodie the gift, but she will never tell me."

Foster, 50, made a case for herself that she prefers to live her life out of the spotlight. At the Golden Globe awards on Sunday, during her acceptance speech for being honoring with the Cecil B. DeMille Award, she addressed the issue and compared herself to celebrities who make a habit and a living off of revealing all the details of their lives.

"Now I'm told, apparently that every celebrity is expected to honor the details of their private life with a press conference, a fragrance and a prime-time reality show," she said. "You know, you guys might be surprised, but I am not Honey Boo Boo Child. No, I'm sorry.

"That's just not me. It never was and it never will be."

Rumors swirled for years about Foster's sexual orientation and she has also never addressed that private detail to the press. She said on Sunday that she has been in show business since she was 3 and "if you had been a public figure from the time that you were a toddler...then maybe you, too, might value privacy above all else."

But can she have what she craves?

CNN quoted Robert J. Thompson, founding director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture at Syracuse University, who said that no more are the days when studios would work with journalists to bury negative press about stars and protect details of their personal lives.

"Everybody who is carrying around a cell phone has the ability to take a picture of you behaving badly, getting in trouble," he said. "People have been hounding celebrities for as long as their have been celebrities, but now there are just so many more venues to where the results of that hounding can go."

These days celebrities, studios, filmmakers and a slew of others use that venue by depending on social media to connect with fans and expand their audience. How realisitis is it to expect privacy when stars use and need their Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other online sharing applications to get their names in the headlines. For example, television star "Neil Patrick Harris" announced via Twitter that he and his partner are expecting twins and then added "[we are] hoping the press can respect our privacy."

Wall Street Journal writer Eric Sasson said that Foster - bringing in the topic of Honey Boo Boo Child, press conferences and frangrance ads - did not do herself justice in the point she was trying to make.

"Was Martina Navratilova acting like Honey Boo Boo Child when she came out? How about Barney Frank, or Elton John, or Ellen?" Sasson said. "Foster seems to be suggesting that it's the absurd degree to which the media and the world no longer value privacy that has forced her to hold on to her own so tightly.

"But Jodie Foster is 50 years old, and Honey Boo Boo Child hasn't been around for more than a year. And I'm pretty sure that when someone famous comes out publicly that they aren't automatically forgoing their right to privacy."

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