Dolly Parton talks about how she handled men while rising to fame and reveals that her grandfather used to call her “Jezebel.”
Howard Stern: “You were extremely attractive, a very good-looking woman. Were men constantly hitting on you? Did they try to take advantage of you, not only in business but sexually as well?”
Dolly Parton: “Well, I was 18 when I moved to Nashville. I met my husband the first day I got there. I had left two boyfriends back home thinking, ‘The last thing I want in Nashville is a boyfriend.’ So what’s the first thing I do? Find one.
“Men flirted with me, but I was a flirt myself, and I never took it wrong. I’ve said in interviews that I look like a woman, but I think like a man.”
Howard Stern: “There were guys in business who would say, ‘Hey, you want to record for me? Come out to dinner, have a couple of drinks,’ implying a quid pro quo. That wasn’t your experience?”
Dolly Parton: “I never slept with anybody to get ahead. If I slept with somebody, it’s because I wanted to, not because I was doing it to get from point A to point B.”
“I was gonna dress like I dressed and look like I looked. I would have been disappointed if somebody hadn’t noticed me.”
“My grandpa would call me Jezebel and say, ‘Don’t you want to go to heaven?’ I’d say, ‘Yeah, I want to go to heaven, but do I have to look like hell when I get there?’”
“Daddy couldn’t whip it out of me, Mama couldn’t talk it out of me, and Grandpa couldn’t preach it out of me. I was gonna look the way I looked, and I still do, because that’s how I felt.”
this woman has literally set the standard for beauty in recent years, yet she continues to feel insecure and to want to ‘improve’ herself more and more; perfection does not exist, and addiction to cosmetic surgery is a real phenomenon...