InStyle.com: Dolly Parton's Transformation
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1955 - Today
"I'm just a backwoods Barbie, too much makeup, too much hair," Dolly Parton sang on her most recent album. "But, don't be fooled by thinkin' that the goods are not all there." Indeed, the goods are more than there. In her four-decade career, the 65-year-old superstar has charted 25 number-one hits, sold 100 million records and even opened her very own (enormously successful) theme park. Her frankly artificial beauty, from her platinum wigs to her Coke bottle figure, are just part of her ample charm. "People say, 'Are you offended by the dumb-blonde jokes?'" she joked on The View. "And I say no, because I know I'm not dumb and I know I'm not blonde."
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1955
The 9-year-old grew up in Sevier County, Tennessee with 11 brothers and sisters. "If we ever had any makeup in the house," her mother once told People of the budding beauty, "Dolly'd grab it first."
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1964
"I always wanted to be prettier," Parton has said of her teenage self. "I got to fixin' myself up. I wanted my clothes tight, my makeup bright, my nails long, my lips red. I got into it."
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1972
The rising star (who released two solo albums and performed with partner Porter Wagoner) had already adopted her trademark whipped cream wigs and frosty makeup.
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1978
"I'm aware I'm not in style, but it don't bother me," the "Heartbreaker" songstress told People of her bubble coifs. "I like looking as if I came out of a fairy tale."
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1980
Parton related to her misunderstood sexpot secretary character in Nine to Five. "I'm not selling sex," she said of her unabashedly va-va-va-voom style. "The magic of the whole thing, is that I am one way and look another."
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1987
Big wigs and bigger talent--the crossover superstar released her 28th solo album, Rainbow.
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1994
"I've always loved makeup, and it's something I understand," Parton told People of her signature makeup line. "You can do it in good taste, but if you want to look like the town tramp like me, you can."
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2000
Looking as doll-like as ever, a fuchsia-sporting Parton made an appearance on Bette Midler's sitcom.
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2001
The 55-year-old blonde scored a critical smash with her bluegrass album, Little "Sparrow."
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2010
"I'm in the public eye, so I don't care who knows what I get done," the ageless Parton said of her beauty regimen. "If I see something sagging, dragging or bagging, I get it sucked, tucked or plucked. It takes a lot of money to look as cheap as I look."
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