Kirsten DunstKirsten Dunst has said if she has children, she won’t let them follow in her acting footsteps.

Kirsten started acting at three years old but shot to fame at 11 when she was cast opposite Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise in Interview with the Vampire.

She said recently: “I’d never put any daughter of mine through acting because, while I loved acting and was happy working as a child, looking back, my happiness always came from pleasing other people - always. It came from satisfying the director or my mother or my acting coach, not from pleasing myself.”

“My mother told me that when I was born she just knew that I was destined to be an actress.”"

“It’s not a natural way to grow up, and acting was never a dream for me. It was the only thing I knew - it was just my life.”

“For a while there was a time when I had a lot of anger towards my mother because of what she did to me. Now I understand what kind of woman she is - she always had the best intentions.”

Kirsten is currently having a year’s break from acting, to take art classes - and seemingly to date Razorlight frontman Johnny Borrell.