Dakota Fanning has divulged her sporty past on The Tonight Show. The 16-year-old Twilight actress revealed that her parents hoped she would grow up to be a sportswoman.

“My mum went to college on a full scholarship for tennis, my dad played minor-league baseball and my grandfather was a quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles.

“So before I started acting the plan for me was to be a tennis player – that was the plan for me and my mum had me in tennis classes.

“One day I went to her and told her I really love the outfits but it's just too hot – it's just too hot for me to play tennis and I didn't want to play anymore.”

Dakota said she then went on to try football but soon found she didn't have the family gene for sport.I did play soccer and my team was called the Spice Girls, I was Baby Spice.

“I was playing in a game one day and I got the ball for the first time and I was so excited and I was running and running. “There was nobody around me, I was thinking this is an easy game, then I kicked it into the goal and was so excited. “I turned around and nobody was cheering for me and nobody was proud of me – and I then realised I’d kicked it in the wrong goal – so I quit soccer too. “I was traumatised!” The actress will next be seen in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, which opens in theatres next week.