Kiernan Shipka has to "set boundaries" for her dating life

She told Cosmopolitan: "I've always had a healthy relationship with dating, but I've spent so much of my life in the public eye in one way or another, I've figured out that I need to set a boundary for myself and not talk about it. I've found what works for me right now is figuring out what part of myself and my life I can keep for myself and what I can give the world.

'The Last Showgirl' star has never publicly confirmed or denied any of her romantic relationships, but it has been thought for some time that she is in a relationship with musician John Mayer.

Meanwhile, Kiernan admitted that she is having the "most fun" of her life so far now that she has arrived in her mid-twenties, and has managed to rid herself of "unnecessary anxiety" that she put on herself with pressures over her career.

She said: "I'm in the most fun era of my life. I have been thinking more about my 20s and having fun and being present, and how that relates to my work but also how it relates to me as a person. I've always erred on the side of control and perfectionism, and those things caused too much unnecessary anxiety. There was an active choice to go, 'Oh, I want to untether from these things'."