Editing Dolly Parton (section)

==Public image==
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|quote   = The way I look and the way I looked then was a country girl's idea of glam, just like I wrote in my "Backwoods Barbie" song. People wanted me to change, they thought I looked cheap. But I patterned my look after the town tramp. Everybody said, "She's trash." And in my little girl mind, I thought, "Well, that's what I'm going to be when I grow up." It was really like a look I was after. I wasn't a natural beauty. So, I just like to look the way I look. I'm so outgoing inside in my personality, that I need the way I look to match all of that.
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|source  = <small>2022</small><ref>{{cite web|website=People|url=https://people.com/country/dolly-parton-recalls-advice-not-look-so-cheap-modeling-her-look-town-tramp/|title=Dolly Parton Recalls Advice 'Not to Look So Cheap,' Modeling Her Look 'After the Town Tramp'|first=Glenn|last=Garner|date=April 18, 2022|accessdate=November 16, 2023}}</ref>
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Parton had turned down several offers to pose nude for ''[[Playboy]]'' magazine, but did appear on the cover of the October 1978 issue wearing a [[Playboy bunny]] outfit, complete with ears (the issue featured Lawrence Grobel's extensive and candid interview with Parton, representing one of her earliest high-profile interviews with the mainstream press). The association of breasts with Parton's public image is illustrated in the naming of [[Dolly (sheep)|Dolly the sheep]] after her, since the sheep was cloned from a cell taken from an adult ewe's [[mammary gland]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/22/newsid_4245000/4245877.stm|title=1997: Dolly the Sheep Is Cloned|publisher=BBC News ("On This Day – 1950–2005" database)|date=n.d.|access-date=February 12, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Weise, Elizabeth|url=https://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/genetics/2006-07-04-dolly-anniversary_x.htm|title=Dolly Was World's Hello to Cloning's Possibilities|work=[[USA Today]]|date=July 4, 2006|access-date=February 12, 2012}}</ref> In [[Mobile, Alabama]], the [[General W.K. Wilson Jr. Bridge]] is commonly called "the Dolly Parton Bridge" due to its arches resembling her bust.<ref name="bridge">{{cite news|title=Truck slides on Dolly Parton bridge, ATVs hit the water|author=Cassie Fambro|work=[[Press-Register]]|date=April 10, 2015|url=http://www.al.com/news/mobile/index.ssf/2015/04/truck_slides_on_dolly_parton_b.html|access-date=January 20, 2016}}</ref> The thickened appearance of the turret frontal armor of the [[T-72|T-72A]] [[main battle tank]] led to the unofficial Army nickname "Dolly Parton"<ref>{{cite book|author=|title=Soviet/Russian Armor and Artillery Design Practices 1945-1995|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XeM72t6oOZIC&pg=PA93|year=1995|publisher=Marine Corps Intelligence Activity |isbn=|pages=93}}</ref> – and later the [[T-72|T-72BI]]s got the "Super Dolly Parton" nickname.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/the-story-the-old-russian-tank-can-still-fight-the-worlds-22576 |publisher=The National Interest |title=This Is the Story of the Old Russian Tank That Can Still Fight the World's Best Armor |date=October 3, 2017 |accessdate=July 18, 2022}}</ref>

Parton is known for having undergone considerable plastic surgery.<ref>{{cite news|url= https://www.nydailynews.com/2007/10/07/boom-in-breast-implants-as-attitudes-change/|title=Boom in Breast Implants as Attitudes Change|date=October 7, 2007|author=Salamone, Gina|work=[[Daily News (New York)|Daily News]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|date=September 1, 2003|title=Nipped, Tucked & Talking – Celebs You Always Thought Had 'A Little Work Done' Are Opening Up About the Pain, the Pleasure and the Prevalence of Hollywood's Favorite Procedures|url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20140945,00.html|work=[[People (magazine)|People]]|access-date=February 12, 2012}}</ref> On a 2003 episode of ''[[The Oprah Winfrey Show]]'', Winfrey asked what kind of [[cosmetic surgery]] Parton had undergone. Parton replied that cosmetic surgery was imperative in keeping with her famous image.{{episode needed|date=April 2014}}
Parton has repeatedly joked about her physical image and surgeries, saying, "It takes a lot of money to look this cheap."<ref>{{cite web|author=The Proust Questionnaire|date=November 2012|title=The Proust Questionnaire: Dolly Parton|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2012/11/dolly-parton-proust-questionnaire|work=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]|access-date=February 8, 2015}}</ref> Her breasts have garnered her mentions in several songs, including "Dolly Parton's Hits" by [[Bobby Braddock]], "[[Marty Feldman]] Eyes" by [[Bruce Baum]] (a parody of "[[Bette Davis Eyes]]"), "No Show Jones" by [[George Jones]] and [[Merle Haggard]], and "[[Make Me Proud]]" by [[Drake (rapper)|Drake]], featuring [[Nicki Minaj]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Make Me Proud (feat. Nicki Minaj) – Single by Drake|url=https://music.apple.com/us/album/make-me-proud-feat-nicki-minaj-single/1445283976|access-date=August 20, 2020|website=Apple Music|date=January 2011|language=en-us}}</ref> When asked about future plastic surgeries, she famously said, "If I see something sagging, bagging or dragging, I'll get it nipped, tucked or sucked."<ref>{{cite web |last=Raphael |first=Rina |date=May 13, 2014 |title=5 style lessons we can learn from Dolly Parton |url=http://www.today.com/style/5-style-lessons-we-can-learn-dolly-parton-2D79655017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140513185942/https://www.today.com/style/5-style-lessons-we-can-learn-dolly-parton-2d79655017 |archive-date=May 13, 2014 |website=Today.com}}</ref> Parton's feminine escapism{{Clarify|date=September 2024}} is acknowledged in her words, "Womanhood was a difficult thing to get a grip on in those hills, unless you were a man."<ref>{{cite journal|last=Fox|first=Pamela|s2cid=144294996|date=1998|title=Recycled "Trash": Gender and Authenticity in Country Music Autobiography|journal=American Quarterly|volume=50|issue=2|pages=234–266|doi=10.1353/aq.1998.0016|issn=1080-6490}}</ref> Parton said in 2012 that she had entered a Dolly Parton drag queen lookalike contest and lost.<ref>{{cite web |last=Chang |first=Juju |date=2012 |title=Dolly Parton on Gay Rumors, Losing a Drag Queen Look-Alike Contest and New Memoir |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/dolly-parton-gay-rumors-losing-drag-queen-alike/story?id=17812138 |website=ABC}}</ref>