And she lives up to that good girl label, right? Pretty much! "It's not a negative thing to say, but it's also not 100 percent accurate," she told Nylon's May issue. "I might not be running around being insane, but I'm also a 21-year-old who likes to be silly...Just because I don't flaunt those parts of my life doesn't mean I don't do some of that privately."
Dakota understands, too, that there's a certain stigma that comes from being a child star. "I've made my peace with the fact that there will be some people who, for the rest of my life, will believe I'm, like, 9 years old," she joked. "I have this joke that I'm literally going to be 35, married, and pregnant and people are still going to say, 'Oh my god, you grew up so fast! I can't believe it!' And yeah, sometimes when you're 21 years old and people are still saying that, you just want to rip your hair out. But I'm OK with it...I know who I am."
She's eager to learn, too! Dakota is currently taking courses at NYU. As she told the Daily Beast earlier this year, she's majoring in women's studies with a focus on "the portrayal of women in film and culture."
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