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Dolly Parton Confirms Long Rumored Tattoos

It’s long been rumored that Dolly Parton has tattoos; there has even been a widely circulated rumor that she is tattooed all up and down her arms and that’s why…

Dolly Parton Confirms Long Rumored Tattoos
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It's long been rumored that Dolly Parton has tattoos; there has even been a widely circulated rumor that she is tattooed all up and down her arms and that's why you always see her with long sleeves. Well, we don't know if that one is true, but Dolly herself did confirm that she has a few tattoos on her body that no one sees.

She said on her NPR Podcast, "I have a few tattoos on my body. They are not meant to be tattoos for the sake of tattoos."

Parton explains that because she is fair-skinned, scars discolor her skin or are otherwise prominent. She adds, "So I, when I first started gettin' a few little things done, I had a few little tattoos to cover up the scarring. But I'm not tattooed all over like a bikewoman or anything."

Dolly laughed and then offered, "I have some butterflies, I have some lace and some little bows — a couple things like that."

You can listen to "Dolly Parton's America" Podcast here.

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.