Dakota Fanning is only 30 years old but she’s been a professional actress for 24 of those years. While it’s now much more common to see successful child actors grow into equally, if not more successful adults, there was a time when that wasn’t the case.
Being in the tabloids is not the end of the road, but Dakota Fanning is clearly thankful it’s a road she didn’t go down.
It seems more than a few interviewers may have simply assumed that by being a child actor, Dakota Fanning would end up in the same trouble that has befallen other child actors.
While some of the child stars that ended up in tabloids never really recovered, others were much more successful.