Dolly Parton On Not Having Kids, Suicidal Attempts, & Openess To Plastic Surgery

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While Dolly is recognised the world over (although she once entered a Dolly Parton lookalike contest… and lost), few would be able to pick Carl Dean, her husband of 57 years, out of a line-up.

Famously elusive, he met Dolly the day she arrived in Nashville as a fresh-faced 18-year-old keen to pursue a career in music and the couple married two years later.

She has attributed their longevity to mutual respect, “and the fact I stay gone a long time”. But when she does come home, Carl certainly reaps the benefits. For his 79th birthday two years ago, she donned a Playboy outfit, “and he just about fell out of his chair”.

It’s a reaction common to us all. Speaking from her home in Nashville, Dolly is resplendent in silver lamé lace-up trousers with matching low-cut vest and silver rhinestone shoes.

She often recalls how she modelled her look on the ‘town tramp’ who walked the streets of Sevierville, Tennessee, where she grew up (‘it costs a lot of money to look this cheap’ is one of her favourite Dolly-isms) and in her latest book, Behind the Seams, she takes readers on a trip through her dazzling decades-long wardrobe.

Certainly, Dolly has been afforded little privacy during her storied career, “and I’ve heard so many crazy rumours about me through the years,” she admits.

“The worst stories were ones saying that my back was broke because my boobs were so heavy! And they’ve had me having an affair with everybody I’ve ever worked with.”

This has included Sylvester Stallone, her co-star in the 1984 film Rhinestone, and Burt Reynolds, with whom she starred two years earlier in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.

With such a long-lasting marriage, does she regret not having children?

“I haven’t missed it like I thought I might,” she admits. “When you’re a young couple, you think you’re going to have kids, but it just wasn’t one of those burning things for me. I had my career and my music and I was travelling.

“If I’d had kids, I’d have stayed home with them, I’m sure, and worried myself to death about them. With everything that’s going on, I’d hate to be bringing a child into this world right now.”

Instead, she started the Imagination Library, an initiative which has seen her give over 220 million books to children worldwide, including in the UK.

She’s such a glass-half-full kind of person, it’s a shock to hear her speak of her darker moments, but in her 2017 book, Dolly on Dolly, she revealed there was a time around her mid-thirties when she contemplated taking her own life.

Family issues and heartache were rife and as she says now, “I was going through the change of life and I had some female health issues too (she underwent a partial hysterectomy).”

In the book, she described the moment she briefly picked up the gun she kept in her bedside drawer in case of burglars, but when dog Popeye came padding into the room, the moment passed and she prayed for guidance instead.

“That was a very hard time,” she says. “Thank God I came out of that. I think it was something God meant for me to go through, so I’d have a better understanding of other people’s darker days.”

Popeye has since passed on, but perhaps grateful for his intervention that day, “his is the first picture I see when I pick up my phone every morning”.

It was a period, she admits, “when I had lost a lot of confidence because I had also gained weight and any time you don’t look good, you don’t feel as good about yourself. So, I finally said, ‘Get off your fat ass and do something about it!’”

It was Rocky himself, Sylvester Stallone, who helped her, “and he’d tell me, ‘You’ve got to stop eating white bread and processed stuff’ and I’d say, ‘But I’m a country girl!’ I still eat those things, just not as often as I used to.

“I’m not much for exercise either and I do just enough to get by.” Contrary to rumour, she doesn’t exercise in high heels, “but,” she adds happily, “I have some high-heeled sneakers.”

She’s the rare celebrity who will admit to cosmetic enhancement – or as she more Doll-ily puts it: “If something is bagging, sagging or dragging, I’ll tuck it, suck it or pluck it.”

Has she ever regretted any procedures? “Every now and then you’ll get a haematoma, or sometimes with fillers and Botox you can get too much and have to wait till the swelling goes down to look normal again,” she says. “It means that instead of being back at work in two weeks, it’s a month.”

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7 minutes ago, RAMROD said:

With everything that’s going on, I’d hate to be bringing a child into this world right now.

This part right here.

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Just now, RAMROD said:

With everything that’s going on, I’d hate to be bringing a child into this world right now.”

Fantastic, eco friendly queen 

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She lost on a look alike competition to herself? How is that even possible? 

 

Sorry great interview but that part right there is just crazy and blew my mind

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The world doesn't deserve Dolly, honestly. 

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Preach!!!

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Edited December 24, 2023 by BUtterfield 8

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For all the men coming her way over the years, that man must be a *good* man, damn

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4 hours ago, BUtterfield 8 said:

The only yt celebrity I trust tbh 

Not even Gagz?! 

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13 hours ago, thierryrreiht said:

This part right here.

I described this to my mother just a few days ago as to why I'm not having children   I don't want to raise something I love just for them to end up in a dystopian hellscape, struggling, living an awful life. Also that sh.it is expensive. I don't desire a life of being dirt broke. Also I don't have a partner let alone a long-term one, and I would never do it alone

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15 hours ago, BUtterfield 8 said:

The only yt celebrity I trust tbh 

It's kinda odd to act like only white people/celebs are capable of doing bad things. Humans are all flawed, including POC. And celebrities, by virtue of having more money and influence, shouldn't be "trusted."

Edited December 24, 2023 by Spanish Eyes

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15 hours ago, BUtterfield 8 said:

The only yt celebrity I trust tbh 

Can we not bring this Twitter garbage to this forum?