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.