She’s not married, but she is dating, and the prospects are high for everything – including children, says Hilary Swank.

“I am to the point that I’m so optimistic that most people tag me as naïve,” the double Oscar winner said at a press gathering to promote her new movie Freedom Writers.

Though she didn’t talk about the new man in her life (she’s been seeing her agent, John Campisi), Swank did say that being single is “a big change” after her eight years of marriage to actor Chad Lowe – and revealed that she’d like a family.

“I definitely would like kids someday,” says Swank. “That’s definitely something that I’ve always thought about as a very, very young girl.”

She added, “I just love kids and that would be an important thing to happen for me someday … whenever the time is right.” [Source]