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Dakota Fanning is 15?

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I have a very hard time accepting how grown up Dakota Fanning is looking these days.  She’ll be 16 in February and she’s a junior in a private high school in L.A.  Just, wow.

She appears in the December issue of Teen Vogue and talks about starring in the Twilight sequel, New Moon.  It seems that she’s a big fan of the books and co-star Kristen Stewart.  Let’s just hope Kristen keeps Dakota away from the bong.  She’s one of the few non-Lindsays left in Hollywood and it would be nice to see her progress more down a Jodie Foster-ish path than a Mackenzie Phillips-ish path.

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  • How can she be turning SIXTEEN in February and be a junior? Are you sure she isn’t a sophomore? Legally, the cutoff for being a junior this year is to turn sixteen by december 5, and she won’t.

    • It’s possible she’s trying to graduate high school in three years, since it would be more beneficial to her career.

    • That is absolutely possible. I started school in Rhode Island, but moved to Washington, so I ended up being 16 when I started my senior year; both states had different laws regarding the cut-off age.

    • She’s said herself that she skipped a grade. But you’re right. A kid 15 going on 16 should be a sophomore.

  • For the most part the outfits are very age appropriate (maybe i’d like the skirts to be a little longer but i’m old fashion!) which is kind of a nice surprise in comparison to the Ali Lohan’s and Miley Cyrus’s (don’t even get me started on Noah) of the world!

    Some day I may learn how to properly place an apostrophe in a name :) because I don’t really think i’ve done it right.

  • Wow, she’s gorgeous. It’s so refreshing to see a young actress NOT getting into trouble all the time. I hope she keeps it that way.

  • she has a 70s vibe esp. in the first picture, very beyond her years even though I still think of her being 12 and she dresses much more appropriately than her peers.

  • She looks really pretty in these photos, and I haven’t thought that she looked pretty in a really long time. If ever.

  • 15? I thought 25. Oh, and its ok being 15 and pretending ure older, the human race is getting better and better.

    • oh come on it’s obvious. When you’re 15 you wanna look 18 and when you’re 20 you wanna look 18. It’s always happened!! Hence the classic flattering sentences such as “oh I thought your mum was your SISTER!” or “a lady never tells her age”.

  • If you Jon Gosselin your eyes you can kinda pretend that her post runs into the image in the next post and it’s still her.

  • She absolutely looks her age in all but the first (leopard print) photo. Albeit, a bit underdressed and over-sexed, but 15 just the same. She’s aging beautifully and I would be surprised if she takes a turn for the worse as so many young stars do. She seems of a higher caliber to me, and there’s no question of her talent. Go Dakota!

  • under all the photo shop, makeup and grown up clothes, she is still a child and in most of the pics she still looks like one. but i tell ya, when shes older shes going to be a stunner!

  • hey dakota nice job in twilight i luv ur character u r my favorit character keep up the good i now wat it is like to be famous see i do motocross and i get alot off people surrounding me taking pics off me so yeah we should hook up sometime i turn 16 in march wat do ya say