Dolly Parton has admitted she was totally taken with a prostitute in her hometown of Tennessee when she was a child.
'I thought she was beautiful,' she says. 'She had more hair, more
colour, more everything. I'm not a natural beauty, but I'm so outgoing,
I felt I needed to be as flamboyant on the outside.'
Dolly, 61, is the first one to admit she's pretty out-there in the style stakes.
'My image is over the top - my clothes are as tacky as Graceland,'
she says, 'but it's helped me to be recognised all over the world. I
have no taste or style and nobody cares. I love it.'
And how does she feel about those mega-boobs? 'I had implants done
but only years after I had lost a lot of weight - in order for them to
stand up like little soldiers,' she tells Sunday magazine.
'I'm in showbiz. I look at my boobs like they're show horses or
show dogs. You've got to keep them groomed. It's all part of my image.'