She moved audiences to tears when she touched upon her sexuality in an impassioned speech at the Golden Globe Awards last month. And it would appear making the frank speech had been a weight off Jodie Foster's mind if her latest youthful look is anything to go by. Stepping out to run errands in Santa Monica, California, on Monday, the 50-year-old actress looked younger than ever thanks to her flawlessly glowing skin. Rolling back the years: Jodie Foster cut a youthful figure as she stepped out in Santa Monica, California, on Monday Passing for a woman half her age, the star showed off her slim figure in a pair of grey and white striped slim-fit trousers, which she teamed with a loose-fitting charcoal T-shirt and matching high-top trainers. The mother-of-two accessorised her look with a pair of dark shades, an oversized navy leather handbag and minimal make-up to show off her envy-inducing skin.And although Jodie seemed to be on a mission when it came to completing her chores for the day, it would appear she had been the unlucky recipient of a parking ticket, with her Audi sporting a piece of paper on the windshield as she sped off into the distance.

Flawless: The 50-year-old actress showed off her glowing skin by going seemingly make-up free Enviable figure: The star showed off her svelte physique in a pair of grey and cream striped slim-fit trousers as she ran errandsJodie's car seemed to be sporting a parking ticket as she drove off after completing her chores The actress, who is mother to sons Charles, 14, and Kit, 12, was the talk of the Golden Globes last month after making a moving speech while accepting her Cecil B DeMille Award for lifetime achievement.Making a moving public tribute to her former partner Cydney Bernard as she addressed the crowd, she said: 'While I'm here being all confessional, I guess I just have just a sudden urge to say something that I've never really been able to air in public.'[It's] a declaration that I'm a little nervous about – but maybe not quite as nervous as my publicist right now. I'm just going to put it out there – loud and proud.'This is not going to be a big coming out speech tonight because I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago back in the stone age – in those very quaint days when a fragile girl would open up to trusted friends and family and coworkers and then gradually proudly to everyone who knew her.

The ticket was still on the windshield of Jodie's car as she drove offPumpkin Toilet Paper Holder 'But now apparently I'm told that every celebrity is expected to honor the details of their private life with a press conference, a fragrance and a primetime reality show.'She thanked her 'heroic co-parent, my ex partner in love, but righteous soul sister in life. Beach House For Sale In San Juan BatangasMy confessor... most beloved BFF of 20 years, Cydney Bernard.Jodie landed her first job in a sun cream commercial when she was three years old and appeared in 50 films before she left school, including her shocking breakthrough role as a child prostitute in Taxi Driver with Robert De Niro.She became one of the most successful adult stars in Hollywood by taking on gutsy roles like rape victim Sarah Tobias in The Accused in 1988 and Clarice Starling in Silence Airbrush Tattoo Cleaner

of the Lambs three years later, both of which won her Best Actress Oscars. Emotional: Jodie moved audiences to tears when she touched upon her sexuality in an impassioned speech at the Golden Globe Awards last month Carrie Fisher says she was pressured to lose over 35 lbs. to reprise her role as Princess Leia in the highly anticipated Star Wars: The Force Awakens. The star, 59, spoke candidly about the emphasis on female actresses to slim down in Hollywood, and says that hasn't changed since she first starred in the films 38 years ago. "They don't want to hire all of me – only about three-quarters!" Fisher told Good Housekeeping U.K. "Nothing changes, it's an appearance-driven thing. I'm in a business where the only thing that matters is weight and appearance. That is so messed up. They might as well say get younger, because that's how easy it is." But Fisher did what was requested, and changed her nutrition and workouts to drop the weight. Axelle / Bauer-Griffin / FilmMagic "I did it the same way everybody has to – don't eat and exercise more!

There is no other way to do it," she says. "I have a harder time eating properly than I do exercising. It's easier for me to add an activity than to deny myself something." RELATED VIDEO: Hear Chiwetel Ejiofor's Hilarious Plan for Lupita NYong'o's Star Wars Debut But the actress and writer says slimming down leaves her conflicted. "When I do lose the weight, I don't like that it makes me feel good about myself. It's not who I am," she explains. "My problem is they talk to me like an actress but I hear them like a writer." Fisher says that obsession with weight extends outside the movie industry to Los Angeles as a whole. "We treat beauty like an accomplishment and that is insane. Everyone in LA says, 'Oh you look good,' and you listen for them to say you've lost weight," she explains. "It's never 'How are you?' or 'You seem happy!' And growing up with her famous parents, singer Eddie Fisher and actress Debbie Reynolds, 83, Fisher says she never felt like she was as attractive as her mom.

"I looked at my mother and said, 'Wow, she is gorgeous and I don't look like her, therefore I'm not pretty,' " she explains. "'And my father doesn't visit – I mustn't be pretty because he likes pretty women.' "You think, 'I'll go into show business because then I'll get enough love and they will put make-up on me properly and then my life will work.' Fisher relayed her experience to new Star Wars actress Daisy Ridley and advised her to avoid getting forced into a "sex symbol" role – like Fisher in 1983's Return of the Jedi, when she wore the iconic gold bikini. "You should fight for your outfit," she warned Ridley. "Don't be a slave like I was."Last updated at 00:54 21 March 2008Actress Jodie Foster is not known to be a slavish follower of fashion. But it appears the Hollywood star has fallen victim to the trend for ultra-thin figures, as the actress revealed her startling weight loss during an appearance in Queensland, Australia. The Oscar-winning actress was seen at the premiere for new family film Nims Island, and she exposed her decidedly thin-looking frame, and a worryingly bony breastplate, in a low-cut green dress.

The pictures also revealed her seriously veiny hands, which could mean the actress has succumbed to the over-training associated with celebrities such as Madonna and Angelina Jolie. Thinner: Jodie Foster is not known for following fashion, but she appears to have fallen victim to the ultra-skinny trend as she showed off her downsized look at a premiere in Australia yesterday Her new thinner look was in stark contrast to a picture of her taken last December, when the actress looked slightly more filled out. Maybe its the actress' two sons, Charles and Kit Bernard Foster, that are keeping her active. Now, the double Oscar-winner appears to be comfortable with her role as mother to two boys, Charles Bernard Foster, and Kit Bernard Foster.She said: "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. Scrawny: Jodie Foster seen right in December, but since then appears to have lost a dramatic amount of weight which has left her upper body looking extremely bony, and her hands seriously veiny