Dakota Fanning Wants People to Know You Don't Own Her

Dakota Fanning goes for a stroll around town with her boyfriend Jamie Strachan on Thursday (July 3) in the Soho neighborhood of New York City.

The 20-year-old actress recently talked to Town & Country magazine about how people sometimes act like they own her, but she doesn’t like it.

“Because people saw me grow up, there’s this weird sort of ownership that they feel for me and that is… difficult. Because it’s not real; it’s in their minds. People don’t know me as much as they think they do,” Dakota said. “I’ll be walking down the street and someone will say hello, and I’ll go, ‘Oh, hi!’ I’ll think I must know this person if they said hello, but then you realize, you don’t know them.”