'We have to sit there and ask these questions and pretend to eat a meal and it just feels so stiff,' the actress says of going on first dates in a new interview.
- Oct 4, 2016
AceShowbiz - Dakota Fanning is back on the market as she recently broke up with her British model boyfriend Jamie Strachan. The actress revealed the split while speaking to Town & Country for the magazine's October issue.
Fanning and Strachan, who's 13 years her senior, first sparked dating rumors when they were photographed holding hands in NYC in September 2013. She didn't share how exactly their relationship came to an end, but she seemed to be enjoying being single right now.
The 22-year-old beauty apparently wasn't too interested in dating someone new either as she told the magazine that she found going on first dates "horrific." She said, "I find dates, in general, horrific. We have to sit there and ask these questions and pretend to eat a meal and it just feels so stiff."
But if she wanted to date again, she might not go to Tinder to find a new guy. "The way I prefer to meet someone is through a friend, [so I know the guy] is most likely not a freak," the "War of the Worlds" actress explained.
Elsewhere in the interview, she discussed growing up in the public eye and her image as "the perfect child" in Hollywood. "I'm a very private person," she said. "I've been thinking lately about how much do I care what other people's preconceived notions of me are. They definitely exist. They always will, to an extent, because I've been acting for 16 years already and I'm 22."
She also explained how she managed to stay grounded despite all the attention. "I was raised by very traditional Southern parents with Southern manners," she said. "You don't air your dirty laundry to people that aren't your family or your friends. Why would I ever want to portray myself as anything other than together?"
