Actress Jodie Foster has confirmed she is expecting a second baby, it has been reported.

The 38-year-old double Oscar winner will give birth to her second child in November, the New York Post newspaper’s columnist Liz Smith reported.

The actress is already the mother of son Charlie, who is almost three and was widely reported to have been born by artificial insemination.

‘I enjoyed being pregnant with Charlie and I look forward to this experience again,’ Foster told the newspaper.

‘I am into all the health foods, yoga and the rest of it.’

The actress refused to say if the father was the same man who had reportedly donated his sperm to conceive Charlie.

‘I won’t answer that,’ she said. But she did say she would be sharing a star sign with the new arrival.

‘My sisters and I are all Scorpios so we have a soft spot for the birth date,’ she said.

Foster, whose career began aged two when she appeared in American television commercials, is currently filming The Panic Room, part of a schedule which will take her up to the birth.

‘That’s the movie where I replaced Nicole Kidman,’ she said. ‘Then I have an independent movie I produced called The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys.

‘We did that in Charleston, South Carolina, a beautiful place and I play a really mean nun with one leg. We’re waiting for a release date.’

The single mother star is notorious for her refusal to discuss her private life. She has been surrounded by a security shield which increases her mystique ever since the man who tried to assassinate then president Ronald Reagan claimed he was acting to impress her.

Stalker John Hinckley had targeted Foster and believed murdering the president would secure her love.