He flirts too," Dolly wrote in her 2017 book Dolly on Dolly, Interviews and Encounters with Dolly Parton. She added: "Yes, it's an open relationship, but not sexually and I would kill him if I thought he was doing that. "He would shoot me too. At the end of the day we love each other madly."
Her best-kept secret. Dolly Parton and her husband, Carl Dean, have been married for more than 50 years, but they're rarely seen together — and that's just the way they like it. The country icon first met her future spouse when she moved to Nashville in 1964 to start her music career.
“He's, like, a quiet, reserved person and he figured if he ever got out there in that, he'd never get a minute's peace and he's right about that.”
Dolly Parton and Carl Dean tied the knot in 1966 after meeting at a local launderette, and though Dolly went on to become a superstar, they're still happily married today. Their love has withstood over five decades – and Dolly Parton's incredibly successful career in music.
While Dean must be flattered to have love songs written about him, Parton revealed that her husband is "not necessarily one of the biggest fans" of her music. "He likes hard rock, he likes Led Zeppelin and bluegrass music, so my music is somewhere in between.
For Parton, that something is her 55-year marriage to Dean. "I've known how to keep my husband private," the country legend explained. "It's just natural to me to protect the things and the people I love and to protect my own privacy."
According to Dolly's creative director Steve Summers, the singer wears gloves as a matter of style. “She doesn't like her elbows,” Steve told InStyle. “[They ask] 'what's wrong with her hands? ' She's 73, and she doesn't like them!”
In a 1978 interview with Playboy Magazine, Parton discussed the parallels drawn between herself and Elvis. She explained that, while she sadly never had the chance to meet Elvis, “There was nobody that [she] ever related to more.
For starters, Parton has said in interviews that she was “crazy” about Presley and even wrote a song about him called “I Will Always Love You.” She also once joked that she had “a little bit of a crush” on him.
Dolly Rebecca Parton is born to Robert Lee Parton and Avie Lee Parton near Sevierville, Tennessee.
Parton suffered from endometriosis.
She suffered from endometriosis, a painful condition that can lead to infertility. By 1984, she underwent a partial hysterectomy to treat her symptoms, a procedure in which the entire uterus and part of the cervix are removed, according to an interview with Closer Weekly.
She's Got Guinness Records
Parton has more than 30 awards to her name, including two Guinness World Records for Most Decades With a Top 20 Hit on the U.S. Hot Country Songs Chart and Most Hits on U.S. Hot Country Songs Chart By a Female Artist.
In interview with Event magazine, Parton shared the heartbreaking moment that she had when she made the difficult decision. “I was desperate for Elvis to sing my song and I'd told everyone he was going to sing it, but I couldn't let that happen. It's my song, my publishing rights.
Country legend Dolly Parton is beloved by listeners of all ages, but despite her large family and her strong bond with kids, she and husband Carl Dean have never had children of their own.
Dolly was just nine years old when the baby died, and fought back tears as she gave the interview. She had named her baby brother 'Larry', and wrote in her 2020 autobiography that she had planned extensively for his arrival.
He says Elvis's favorite groups were the Harmonizing Four and Golden Gate Quartet and his favorite gospel singers included Jimmy Jones, Jake Hess (who sang with the Statesmen and later formed the Imperials) and Mahalia Jackson.
Something in my heart [said] 'Don't do that,' and I just didn't do it, and they just didn't do it.” Turning down Presley, said Parton, broke her heart because she truly wanted to hear him sing her song.
In 2017, she told Vanity Fair that she tries to hide her keloid scar tissue, explaining, "I have a tendency where if I have any kind of scars anywhere then they kind of have a purple tinge that I can never get rid of." Parton also said that her butterfly and flower tattoos are pastel-colored to help with covering the ...
"I have a tendency to have keloid scar tissue, and I have a tendency where, if I have any kind of scars anywhere, then they kind of have a purple tinge that I can never get rid of," Dolly said.
For years, many have speculated that Parton constantly wears long sleeves to cover up a different sort of sleeve. As Parton tells it, she's not completely covered with hidden tattoos, but she's got her fair share of ink. "I do have some tattoos, that's true," the country music legend shared. "But they're tasteful.
“I didn't have children because I believed that God didn't mean for me to have kids so everybody's kids could be mine, so I could do things like Imagination Library because if I hadn't had the freedom to work, I wouldn't have done all the things I've done,” Parton said on Today.
Her parents paid for her birth with a sack of oatmeal.
Her family was so poor that grain was all her father had to give the doctor who delivered her.
Country legend Dolly Parton is Miley Cyrus' godmother. Parton said she was given that role due to her close relationship with Cyrus' father, Billy Ray. Cyrus and Parton have both spoken fondly about their relationship over the years.
'” That self-confidence has paved her way to financial success. In August 2021, Forbes estimated the singer-songwriter's net worth at $350 million.