Dolly Parton sat down with Barbara Walters in 1977 and got the full experience. In a particularly trying part of the interview, Walters narrows in on Parton’s appearance, first probing with questions about Parton’s body. Parton joked and asked if Walter’s was referring to her “full figure.” Walters pushed it further. “My assistant asked me something, and I’m going to blame it on her because I wouldn’t have had the nerve otherwise,” Walters began. “Is it all you?” she asked Parton.
The “Jolene” singer graciously laughed and said she gets asked that a lot. “I always say that if I hadn’t have had it on my own,” Parton said, referring to her body, “I’m just the kind of person that would have had me some made.”
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What was arguably the worst point of the interview was when Walters pointed at Parton and said, “You don’t have to look like this.” She went on, “You’re very beautiful. You don’t have to wear the blonde wigs. You don’t have to wear the extreme clothes.” Even this Parton handled with grace. “No, it’s certainly a choice,” Parton said calmly. “I don’t like to be like everybody else. I’ve often made the statement that I would never stoop so low as to be fashionable. That’s the easiest thing in the world to do.”
