Kirsten Dunst Doesn't Want Her Kids to Be Exposed to the Pressures of Hollywood

Kirsten Dunst says she doesn't want to expose her future kids to the pressure of Hollywood the way she was as a child.

The star who started modeling at the age of three and moved to acting at six says the pressure of being a child star has contributed to a bout with depression last year.

Kirsten says of her future children: "I'd never put any daughter of mine through acting because, while I loved acting and was happy working as a child, looking back, my happiness always came from pleasing other people - always. It came from satisfying the director or my mother or my acting coach, not from pleasing myself."

Dunst admits she felt a "lot of anger" towards her mother for pushing her into acting at such an early age.

She said: "My mother told me that when I was born she just knew that I was destined to be an actress."

"It's not a natural way to grow up, and acting was never a dream for me. It was the only thing I knew - it was just my life.

"For a while there was a time when I had a lot of anger towards my mother because of what she did to me. Now I understand what kind of woman she is - she always had the best intentions."