Article continues below advertisementDakota Fanning is ready for the next stage of her life. In a new interview for Byrdie, the former child star, 31, is hoping to have children sometime in the near future. "Every year that goes by, you're more in tune with who you are and with what you want and don't want," she told the publication. "I'm associating this decade with the next part of my life. I've always wanted to have kids - that's something I've never questioned and has always been really important to me," Fanning added.