Dakota Fanning defends Twilight co-star Kristen Stewart over affair scandal in new interview

 She may Hollywood's youngest and fastest rising star, but Dakota Fanning, is also quick to defend her friends.
The teen actress, who plays Jane in the hit Twlight Saga films,opened up to InStyle magazine about the scandal involving co-stars Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson.
'Everyone thinks they have the right to, you know, publicise the struggles and sadness and heartbreak and all of that,' she said in defence of gal pal Kristen Stewart whom she also worked with in the glam-rock Joan Jett biopic The Runaways.
'It’s like, ‘Why do you think you are the authority to judge people’s experiences?’ she said.

 Despite her tender years, Dakota has worked with everyone from Steven Spielberg to Robert DeNiro and Denzel Washington.
And while making over 30 films and being the youngest nominee for a Screen Actors Guild Award, she has also managed to avoid the pitfalls that have ruined fellow child actors like Macaulay Culkin and Lindsay Lohan.
Posing in a series of designer outfits, the 18-year-old, revealed the secret of her success to InStyle saying: 'Why have I been able to stay sane in a sometimes insane world?'
'The pure love of what I do. Making movies.'

 Not that the blonde beauty has not at times been the centre of controversy herself.
The teens parents were heavily criticised in 2006  after allowing their then-14-year-old daughter to shoot a rape scene in the film Hounddog.
And Fanning's advertisement for Marc Jacobs’ Oh, Lola! perfume campaign ad was banned in the U.K. last year after the Advertising Standards Authority judged that 'the ad could be seen to sexualize a child.'
The Taken star defended her decisions however, explaining: I’ve always been drawn to material that’s more kind of heavy, you know? Whether it be dark or dramatic or sometimes disturbing. And that can be hard to do when people think you’re still a kid.'

 The award-winning actress's under-the-radar love life has also kept her from becoming front page news: she has only ever had one boyfriend and is currently single.
'You know, I’m not the kind of girl or person who really wants boyfriends in my life,' she told InStyle
'I’m also the kind of person… I’m very black and white in what I feel and I don’t wanna be with someone that I don’t foresee spending a long time with.'
The December issue of InStyle hits newsstands next week.

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