Dolly Parton needs to make clear the rumors about whether or not or not she’s inked up her physique.
“I do have some tattoos, that is true,” Parton, 74, told People. “However they’re tasteful. I am not a tattoo lady.”
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She additionally shot down the chatter that she has them tattooed up and down her arms, whereas explaining {that a} medical subject led to her ink.
“My tattoos are fairly, they’re clever and so they often began out to cowl some scar, to not make an enormous assertion,” she mentioned. “Ribbons and bows and butterflies are the issues that I’ve. I used to be very sick for some time and I needed to put on a feeding tube. It left a bit of indention in my facet and I did not prefer it as a result of I’m so honest that scars flip purple on me.”
“I wish to make positives out of negatives,” she added. “I had a bit of beehive tattooed over it — a bit of yellow-and-brown beehive with a tiny little bee on prime of the hive. The mouth of it’s that little sinkhole.”
Parton, whose first Christmas album in 30 years comes out subsequent month, additionally mentioned she doesn’t have a tattoo of husband Carl Dean.
“No, he is tattooed on my coronary heart,” she mentioned, laughing. “Who is aware of, I could get some extra later. I may should get lined with tattoos simply so all people might be proper!”
The rumors about her tattoos have caught round about so long as a tattoo itself.
“Folks mentioned the opposite day that the explanation you put on sleeves is as a result of you’ve gotten snakes tattooed throughout. I mentioned, ‘No, I don’t!'” she informed TODAY’s Savannah Guthrie in 2014. “I do have just a few little tattoos, however they have been principally achieved to cowl scars ‘trigger I’m so honest.”
“However they’re not the place you possibly can see them,” the Nation Music Corridor of Famer added.
Parton, who’s racked up greater than two dozen No. 1 songs on the Billboard nation charts, says she’s used to rumors about her, and letting them roll off her again is previous hat at this level.
“Oh, yeah! I all the time giggle at them,” she informed Folks. “One, it exhibits up about each three years within the tabloids, the place I am bedridden as a result of my boobs are so heavy that I am crippled for all times on my again. I simply giggle. Nicely, they’re heavy, however they have not crippled me but.”
