Jennifer Garner never thought she would grow up to become a Hollywood actress – her childhood dream was to work in a library.

The 37 year old was an avid reader during her early years in her native West Virginia and Garner always assumed she would take her love of literature on into her profession.

But after discovering drama while she was at university, she dropped her bookish dreams to try her luck as an actress.

She tells Oprah Winfrey’s O magazine, “As a kid in West Virginia, I had a very rich imaginary world. And my dream was to grow up to be a librarian, because I had a librarian named Mrs. McCann who I thought was the most magical woman on the planet. She used to publish little versions of my stories, typing them on manila folders and illustrating them with pictures of me and my teddy bear!”

Source, Bauer-Griffin