The Untold Truth Of Kirsten Dunst

In her lifetime, Kirsten Dunst has been a child vampire, a cheerleader, a queen, a Minnesota hairdresser, and more — and she continues to transform both personally and professionally. The actress successfully made the transition from child actor to a bonafide movie star, and she even added Emmy-nominated television star to her long list of accolades in 2016.

Audiences have watched Dunst have her first on-screen kiss with Brad Pitt at age 11 in Interview with the Vampire (it was "gross"), lead the Toro cheerleading squad to victory in Bring It On, play a damsel in Spider-Man, and essentially grow up in front of their screens. As the actress continues her life in the spotlight, she has gotten engaged, become a new mom, and been made the star of Showtime series On Becoming a God in Central Florida.

The actress can seemingly do it all, and she makes her own choices. Dunst told Entertainment Weekly in August 2019, "When I make something, I feel like no one's ever going to see it," noting, "I feel like I do it for myself." Doing projects for herself seems to be working. This is the untold truth of Kirsten Dunst.

Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise were arguably the hottest movie stars of the '90s, and still are to this day. Kirsten Dunst was the envy of girls everywhere when she got to star alongside the Hollywood heavyweights as a pre-teen in the 1994 hit film Interview with the Vampire, and, in August 2019, the actress opened up to Stephen Colbert about what it was like to film with the A-listers.

During an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Dunst said, "They treated me like a little sister. I was very sweet. I was a very innocent 12-year-old. I was just doing my job, and they were very sweet to me." Dunst went on to explain that, at the time, she saw Pitt in the film A River Runs Through It, and she decided she was going to name her son after his character in the film: "His name was Tristan and I was like, 'I'm going to name my first son Tristan.' You know, little girl stuff," she told Colbert.

The Virgin Suicides was the first collaboration between Kirsten Dunst and director Sofia Coppola, but it wasn't their last. The duo have worked together on several films, including Marie Antoinette and The Beguiled, and they have developed a close bond over the course of their working relationship. Not only is Coppola fiercely protective of her muse, but Dunst also credits the director for boosting her confidence as a teen.

In an interview with Variety in May 2017, Dunst detailed an invaluable compliment Coppola gave her when they initially met, saying, "She said to me, 'I love your teeth; don't ever fix your teeth.' I remember doing a Spider-Man movie later, and one of the producers was like, 'I need to take you to the dentist!' They even fixed my teeth on the poster. But I just knew I was never doing that." Dunst went on to describe how "cool" Coppola is and said, "She gave me confidence in little things that I wouldn't necessarily have had."

Kirsten Dunst began her Hollywood career at age 3, and hasn't really stopped since. In February 2008, things came to a boiling point for the star, who entered Utah's Cirque Lodge Treatment Center. Initial sources told People that the actress, then 25, had entered rehab after "partying hard." However, Dunst spoke out against the claims, saying she sought help for depression.

In a May 2008 interview with E! News, she said, "I was struggling, and I had the opportunity to go somewhere and take care of myself. I was fortunate to have the resources to do it. My friends and family thought it was a good idea, too."

Dunst opened up about her difficult experiences in Hollywood to Town & Country in 2015, saying, "What people expect of an actor is totally ridiculous." She explained, "It's unfair that an artist is expected to speak really well in public and have skin tough enough to withstand sometimes really hurtful criticism, but also, in order to do the job, be really sensitive and in touch with their feelings. So all you can do is be yourself — just be who the hell you are."

Kirsten Dunst has dated some Hollywood hunks over the course of her career. While filming On the Road in 2010, Dunst met fellow actor Garrett Hedlund, and the pair hit it off. The actors began dating in 2012, but maintained a relatively low-key relationship.

Dunst spoke to Vanity Fair about her relationship expectations in November 2015, saying, "I appreciate old-fashioned manners." She continued, "I want a guy to pay for dinner and open the door for me. I love the masculine; I've dated men who had more of a feminine side and it didn't work." Judging by the length of their relationship, it's safe to say Hedlund met Dunst's expectations.

In August 2015, she opened up to Town & Country about her relationship with Hedlund, saying, "We've been together for three and a half years, so, yes, it's going really well." She went on, "We're the same age. We have similar backgrounds [Hedlund is from Minnesota]. He feels like family to me." Sadly, the couple split by April 2016, after four years together.

As time went on, Kirsten Dunst became more comfortable talking about her engagement to Jesse Plemons. When the actress appeared on Live with Kelly and Ryan in September 2017, she told the hosts her engagement ring was vintage and that wedding planning was going well. She said, "It's good. It's so funny, I never thought I was that person who'd have, like, a Pinterest board. I'm doing all that, like pinning things. It's really fun, and, because we create it together from the beginning, it's a really nice thing to do together."

The wedding planning continued in August 2019, as Dunst explained at the TCA Summer Press Tour in Beverly Hills while promoting her Showtime series On Becoming a God in Central Florida. Dunst discussed her upcoming wedding to fiancé Plemons, telling Us Weekly, "We're definitely going to have a wedding eventually, but probably [a] small [ceremony] at home or something, like, really intimate, not a big wedding."

The actress said the wedding is a "priority," but admits that life has gotten too busy for the star. She noted, "So it has to be a good time when we can all have fun."

Over the course of her three decades working in Hollywood, Kirsten Dunst has developed an impeccable sense of style that's both chic and effortless. The woman knows good fashion, so it's no surprise that she was one of the first stars to wear the fashion brand Rodarte. The actress is a big fan of the fashion brand's founders, sisters Kate and Laura Mulleavy, and has maintained a close friendship with the pair since first meeting them when she was in her early 20s.

The actress described her relationship with the sisters in an interview with Town & Country in August 2015, saying, "We're a lot alike. They live with their parents in Pasadena, and I live nine houses away from my mother in the Valley. We're very family-oriented, and when we're not working we like to be home and chilled out."

Not only has Dunst worn Rodarte, but she has starred in Woodshock, a film directed by the fashion designers. Further proving their bond, Dunst confirmed her pregnancy in a 2018 Rodarte lookbook, and, in an interview with Live with Kelly and Ryan in September 2017, Dunst revealed that the sisters were designing her wedding dress. 

In her Showtime series On Becoming a God in Central Florida, Kirsten Dunst plays a recently widowed single mother named Krystal Stubbs, who is essentially forced into a multi-level marketing scheme to make ends meet. For the role, Dunst had to get a spray tan every Sunday before filming. This posed an issue at bedtime for her young son, as she explained on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in August 2019.

While promoting the series, she told Colbert, "I had a spray tan every Sunday for this role. ... I remember Monday morning my mother-in-law is texting me. She's like, 'I think Ennis has a little bit of this brown, reddish hair coming in right here!' I was like, 'Lisa, that's my spray tan!'"

The actress went on, "So, on Sundays I couldn't hold my kid." She added, "I would postpone it to the latest possible minute so that I could hold my baby before he went to bed ... I couldn't put him to bed on Sunday nights because I would just get spray tan all over him!"