Dakota Fanning, 31, knows what she wants from this 'next decade'

""Every year that goes by, you're more in tune with who you are and with what you want and don't want," she said."

""I'm associating this decade with the next part of my life. I've always wanted to have kids - that's something I've never questioned and has always been really important to me. So, hopefully, dating will end soon, and this next decade will bring that into my life," the actor said."

""Instead of focusing on the things that I don't have yet, I switched it to, 'Oh my god, how exciting. There's so much that's yet to come.' I want to continue to tell myself to be excited instead of worrying. I want to focus on possibility. It's all yet to come," she said."

Dakota Fanning grew up in front of the cameras and is reassessing success and fulfillment as she enters her 30s. Each year brings greater alignment with personal wants and limits. Entering her 30s produced a mental shift toward excitement about the future and a focus on possibility rather than on things not yet achieved. She has always wanted children and hopes the next decade will include family formation, expressing a desire for dating to end soon. A history of early career recognition includes a Screen Actors Guild nomination for I Am Sam and roles such as War of the Worlds, and she currently stars in the Peacock thriller All Her Fault. Close relationships with women in her family, friends, and colleagues help her navigate fame and media labels.

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