We spend week after week spotlighting celebriting parenting blunders that make us cringe. Things like preschoolers in heels and nine year olds dressed inappropriately sexy on more than one occasion can really get to you.
That's why we'd like to celebrate celebrity kid Dakota Fanning today.
Here is a recent photo of Dakota, who is fifteen.
This is not a movie set. That is Dakota, at a real-life football game, among real-life peers, cheering for her real-life football team.
And that's pretty great.
Dakota was also chosen Homecoming Princess for her school. She was cheered and photographed for being a sweet, nice person in real life, instead of for portraying a character in a movie.
We couldn't be happier for Dakota and wish Suri, the Brangelina brood, and other high -profile celebrity kidlets could be allowed moments like these.
I love how she balances celebrity with normal life. A lot of Hollywood parents should take a chapter from the Fanning's parenting style. She is definitely a good role model for young girls unlike some (cough, Miley Cyrus, cough).
Too bad we can't create some kind of "Stress Test" to tell how people will handle fame before they get famous.
I'm glad to see Dakota is doing so well. I hope she goes on to have a long career because I think she is incredibly talented.
I'm so happy to see her living a normal life.
Wellll.... yeah... it's great to see her like this but.... of course you know why she was chosen homecoming princess.... which just makes that part a *tiny* bit sad. The other girls didn't stand a snowball's chance in hell of winning.
I'm not so sure, Flutterby. A celebrity high schooler probably has it even harder than the average teen because every single move and expression they make is under scrutiny by their peers looking for signs of diva-ness or snobbery.
I think to be popular in high school and be famous, you'd have to be very personable and down-to-earth.
(For example, had I attended the same high school as Mariah Carey, I'd have smacked the butterflies and Hello Kitty right outta her.)
Very true Susie... I didn't consider it from that angle. If she was a snot celeb diva teen, they would have had great fun taking the wind out of her sails by NOT choosing her.
There's gotta be more like her out there... you should take on the challenge of finding and spotlighting them once a week. I enjoy all the posts here, but it's always extra nice to see the ones you guys write about who *don't* earn the moron parent awards on a daily basis. It's also nice to see the "celebrity" kids who obviously have parents who aren't idiots...