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Today’s Come Out & Play post spotlights Jodie Foster.

Jodie Foster made a sort of cryptic announcement regarding her sexuality earlier this week by “thanking” her partner in public for the first time ever. Many people, and by people I mean bloggers and columnists, believe this to be her shinning coming out moment! This was her big, “I’m gay!” statement to the world!

… or was it?

In my professional blogging opinion, I believe this was nothing more than a heartfelt “thank you,” to someone very special in Foster’s life. It wasn’t meant to be a declaration of any kind.

In the coming out sphere, Foster has long since portrayed the stance that she could care less whether the world knew or didn’t know she was gay. Her personal life, sexuality included, always remained her personal life. She separates herself from Hollywood, which is a rarity in the industry and I commend her for it. That’s why I don’t think that the statement Foster made was meant to be a “statement” at all.

Jodie Foster is the kind of woman who doesn’t need approval from her peers, critics, or even the world. She knows who she is. She has always known. Therefore, making a declaration on the fact that she is gay probably never even crossed her mind. It wasn’t an issue when she got together with Cydney, so why would it be an issue now? Foster carries herself so well that Hollywood stars such as Britney Spears should be taking notes on how to conduct oneself in public. They should be calling her for advice on how to separate one world from the other.

See, what Foster figured out a long time ago is that the celebrity world is nothing more than a mirage. It isn’t reality, it’s a world of make believe. And Foster knows the difference between reality and make believe. She knows the importance of separating her real life from her celebrity life. She keeps the two on separate plains and never lets one get mixed up with the other.

I have always admired Jodie Foster. She was forced to figure herself out at a very young age, and the way she has navigated her career in the spotlight through a journey of adolescence and acceptance is truly amazing. You can’t tell me that, after years of keeping her head on her shoulders when it came to celeb-reality and reality, she suddenly decided to mix the two. I don’t buy it for a second.

Jodie Foster didn’t finally come out. She’s been out to herself for years. And the rest of us are just catching on.

Tune in every Friday for the Come Out & Play series, featuring coming out stories of celebrities, every day people, personal reflections, advice, tid bits and everything else concerning the complicated world of coming out!

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