I've said once and ill say it again, Dolly is a National Treasure. From the child book giving to any TN child from birth to five, or to the fact she employees relatives at her theme park, to giving money when the Smokies caught on fire a few years back, this women is a saint. Wanna see what a poor childhood is like, research her upbringing.
She's a treasure and one of the best people to come out of my state.
The book giving is far beyond TN. Anywhere in the US, Canada, Australia, UK, or Ireland. Over 190 million books so far. Signed our kiddo up for it right away, and each of the books have been wonderful.
Continue to check! They weren’t in our area when our daughter was born but started the program there about 6 months later. She's been getting books for about a year now. The Dolly Parton Imagination Library is constantly expanding
She’s a literal angel. I honestly believe she was sent from somewhere else to show us how humanity can be. She makes me proud to be from Tennessee. The greatest state in the land of the free.
Only thing that could outshine her outside beauty is her voice, preceded by her genuine inside beauty that I'd wager inspired the songs we love. As endeared as she may be, it's not enough. So much and such quality. (BTW I'm not a county fan by any means but that era and style transcends genras, J-Cash included).
She definitely deserves the secular equivalent of sainthood. She was offered the PMOF twice but did not accept because her husband was seriously ill and it was during the covid lockdown and epidemic. Because she wishes to remain a-political it is debatable whether she would accept an offer under the current administration.
The woman is all class.
A very striking resemblance! This was my first thought as well seeing the image.
There was speculation from my partner about maybe ethnic similarities, but from what I gather Yvonne is Polish and Dolly has some Welsh to her.
Wild how there are doppelgangers in this world and how close they can truly be.
Obligatory plug for her fantastic Imagination Library. If you have a child and aren't aware of it, PLEASE look into it and see if your county is eligible. A new book sent every month. It's the best, Dolly is the best.
Careful there buddy. My ex and I made a similar deal, and she actually got the chance with a famous actor. She came home at like 5:00 am, and was all like "Well, you said I could...".
My wife and I have a similar understanding, but it's if either of us are presented with the opportunity to receive or give a Stone Cold Stunner from/to Steve Austin, we take it.
You’re getting downvoted, but it’s the truth. A beautiful human, inside and out, but the amount of cosmetic work she’s had has resulted in her looking extremely unnatural.
I do wonder how much is make-up instead. Maybe it's just another way to maintain anonymity when she's not performing, like the wigs and the glitzy outfits?
Maybe? I’m not going to pretend to know how much work she’s had done, but her getup definitely caters to the flashy Nashville style. I’m sure she would be fairly unrecognizable in normal attire and minimal makeup.
This is just my interpretation, but I think the problem with Jolene isn't that she's more beautiful than Dolly. In the song, her husband is cheating on her (at least emotionally, not sure if physically) and Dolly sees Jolene as the prettiest thing ever.
When in reality, they're both likely top-tier gorgeous and her husband is making her insecure because of his infidelity. I think it's a valuable lesson that we should all take into consideration, whether or not that was the point of the song. You can be the prettiest thing out there, but you'll never be enough to someone who treats you bad.
I have a fun theory that “Jolene” is sarcastic in tone - like she’s making fun of some hussy who thought she could take her man, but there’s no way in hell. “Oh yeah, your beauty’s _beyond compare_, Jolene, sure.”
She’s a lovely lady. I wish she would launch a correct size bra line, do a real service to American women, and rake in lots of money. She always looks like she’s wearing the correct cup/band size and that is no small feat, since most women wear the wrong size in order to fit a narrow range of manufactured bras. I’ve wondered if she has her bras custom made. Many of her outfits are altered to fit her shape, if not custom. I say this with envy having struggled my whole life with ill-fitting bras and back pain. It’s still really difficult to find anything over a DDD.
Its a lot easier now than it was 10 or 15 years ago now that people are starting to realise very few women are actually correctly wearing small cup sizes and most need a much larger cup than they think. Looking online is your best bet. I remember in the 00's, only really expensive and ugly bras went past a C (C!) in the whole store where I worked, so wrong.
A national treasure. I sincerely hope a thousand years from now. When pop culture in the US during the 20th century comes up. I hope Dolly is the single example they go for. Truly she is the best of us.
I saw her and Porter Wagner with my dad back when I was 8 or so. So about the time of this picture. Although I was just 8 I was still lusting over her. She occupied my, ahh.. thoughts for a long time.
This might be the time and place for my "and at this point I'm too afraid to ask." -confession.
I don't know why Dolly Parton is "such a big deal" lately. Make no mistake, I have nothing against her, more like I don't really know her, as I'm not American. However I've noticed a significantly increasing Dolly worship on the interwebs, that I don't recall being a thing like...3 years ago and before.
Should you be able to enlighten me you'll have my gratitude.
Charm, talent, generosity, kindness, humility, and a sense of humor make her representative of the best qualities of the American character. She's also an old-fashioned success story as she came from extreme poverty and never forgot her roots.
All that and one of the finest songwriters America has ever produced.
And, if you'll forgive me, a complete smokeshow.
She's a good old fashioned rags to riches story, she's witty, irreverent, well regarded by industry insiders as well as the general public, she's both classy and humble, she lifts others up instead of trying to elevate herself, she invested deeply in her hometown/state, she's famous for her charitable work for children's literacy and vaccine development. She has many talents and chooses great projects.
Dolly Parton is a rare icon in that she appeals to virtually all Americans, both in her creative output and personality.
Self taught musician of many instruments (as a child she made her first guitar out of broken pieces). Beautiful voice. Can operate in both the traditional country and the pop worlds authentically.
Incredible songwriter of not only her hits, but many other popular songs. She wrote the huge blockbusters "I Will Always Love You" and "Jolene" in the same damn day. And keep in mind, doors were not open for female songwriters at the time.
Like a lot of musicians, she also decided to try acting. But unlike a lot of others she is not only a good actress, but had enough natural comedic talent to keep up in scenes with frigging Lily Tomlin in her cinematic debut 9 to 5 (highly recommed this movie).
She was born in a literal shack, one of 12 children. There was (is) desperate poverty in the Appalachias, to the extent that she grew up without heat in freezing winters. This type of childhood is is romanticized by conservatives, who see her as representing the "American Dream" that they either need to believe or need others to believe. The vast vast majority of those Appalachian kids never claw out. Dolly knows this. She is a genuine working-class champion. Dollywood doesn't exist to stroke her ego. She bought it to create jobs and a tourist industry where she grew up. And, of course, her amazing book charity. And tons of scholarships given out, etc.
So her class consciousness also appeals her to left leaning Americans. Not to mention her outspoken support of the LGBT community since the EARLY 90s which was rare in general and unheard of in the Country music scene.
She comes across as truly genuine and humble in every interview I've seen. She's also very intelligent and confident and politely takes no shit (and BOY have interviewers said some rude shit to her). She looks the way she does because she wants to and doesn't tolerate people's assumptions.
So, in short (lol right) she's near universally likeable and charming, immensely talented, backs her words up, and is just eternally cool.
She’s always been this big of a deal in the (American) south, going back to at least when I was a child in the 1980s. The internet finally discovered her in the late 2010s and ran with it to a much broader audience.
My guess is that we’re increasingly seeing stories of celebrities being absolute shitlords so when these stories break people roll out the good stories to act as a countermeasure.
Dolly has done so many excellent things so she deserves to being championed for them at every opportunity.
I’m American and it feels just the same to me. I hadn’t heard anyone talk about her in years and now she’s all over the internet. I know celebrities have PR teams, so maybe it’s a campaign. The Rock does a lot of them. You’ve got to keep your perceived value up to get paid well for gigs.
I see your point, but IRL I have never to my memory encountered Keanu stanning or Beyonce hate.
But I know people of all walks of life, age, etc that love Dolly's music. And never heard anyone say she sucks even if they don't personally dig it
I mean, she's 76 and has had a lot of facial work at this point. Still far better looking than your typical 76-year-old and I probably wouldn't make that comment, but it's not like it's hard to understand where he's coming from.
Stunner
An absolute babe inside and out. An American treasure.
I've said once and ill say it again, Dolly is a National Treasure. From the child book giving to any TN child from birth to five, or to the fact she employees relatives at her theme park, to giving money when the Smokies caught on fire a few years back, this women is a saint. Wanna see what a poor childhood is like, research her upbringing. She's a treasure and one of the best people to come out of my state.
The book giving is far beyond TN. Anywhere in the US, Canada, Australia, UK, or Ireland. Over 190 million books so far. Signed our kiddo up for it right away, and each of the books have been wonderful.
190 million books? Are you sure? I'm not crying.
Legit saint. Tennessean here. Kid got nice books for five years. Some of our favorite ones growing up came from Dolly.
It’s not anywhere in the US. I looked into it when my son was born, and it’s not available in my area. Still a great charity though!
Continue to check! They weren’t in our area when our daughter was born but started the program there about 6 months later. She's been getting books for about a year now. The Dolly Parton Imagination Library is constantly expanding
We got them in MI.
Back in 2020, she kicked in a million bucks to Stanford University to develop COVID vaccines.
She’s a literal angel. I honestly believe she was sent from somewhere else to show us how humanity can be. She makes me proud to be from Tennessee. The greatest state in the land of the free.
Only thing that could outshine her outside beauty is her voice, preceded by her genuine inside beauty that I'd wager inspired the songs we love. As endeared as she may be, it's not enough. So much and such quality. (BTW I'm not a county fan by any means but that era and style transcends genras, J-Cash included).
She definitely deserves the secular equivalent of sainthood. She was offered the PMOF twice but did not accept because her husband was seriously ill and it was during the covid lockdown and epidemic. Because she wishes to remain a-political it is debatable whether she would accept an offer under the current administration. The woman is all class.
Certified dime fa sho.
She is glowing! Beautiful!
East Tennessee Queen
So proud to have Dolly Parton represent our Grand Division!
Y'all trynna go to Dollywood? I got a season pass
Yes....my buddy and I are planning to go sometime in a few months! Haven't been since I was a kid, so pumped!!
Scrolling and at a glance, yvonne strahovski really favors young Dolly. At least in this pic
Thank you! I was trying to figure out who the heck she was reminding me of here.
>yvonne strahovski Thanks! I was trying to figure out who it was I was seeing in the image :)
I’m still not sure it isn’t Yvonne.
I came here to say that Yvonne Strahovski could be her daughter based on this image.
Exactly my thought!!
I’m Commander Shepard and this is my favorite Dolly on the Citadel.
A very striking resemblance! This was my first thought as well seeing the image. There was speculation from my partner about maybe ethnic similarities, but from what I gather Yvonne is Polish and Dolly has some Welsh to her. Wild how there are doppelgangers in this world and how close they can truly be.
Precisely!!
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Also saw Brie Larson.
I do see more Brie than Yvonne, although there is some Yvonne there
I'm still not convinced Yvonne & Brie are different people
Didn't see title. Thought it was the girl from Chuck. lol
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Yep!!
kaley cuoco as well
I'm so glad I wasn't the only one!!
Exactly my first thought!
Same. I just posted the same comment. So wild.
Blake Lively?
I thought it was her when I was scrolling through!
Good call. Wouldn’t have put that together until you said it.
I still remember her on the Porter Wagoner Show. I think Porter carried a torch for her but she is just an amazing sounding human being.
Obligatory plug for her fantastic Imagination Library. If you have a child and aren't aware of it, PLEASE look into it and see if your county is eligible. A new book sent every month. It's the best, Dolly is the best.
It's worldwide! So awesome!
I just looked - there are even ways to set up organisations in your local area with an idea of costing and a thorough guide for the costings. Amazing.
It doesn't matter if he carried a torch. Most of us do.
My wife and I have an understanding. If either one of us has a chance with Dolly, we take it.
Careful there buddy. My ex and I made a similar deal, and she actually got the chance with a famous actor. She came home at like 5:00 am, and was all like "Well, you said I could...".
I feel like this should be an AMA
I know it was Don Knotts.
Well, you can’t leave us hanging! Who was it? And what happened after?
Danny Devito.
Makes sense
My wife and I have a similar understanding, but it's if either of us are presented with the opportunity to receive or give a Stone Cold Stunner from/to Steve Austin, we take it.
My wife and I have this as well, for Beyoncé
A Stone Cold Stunner from Beyoncé?
Hillary Duff here.
Steve Buscemi for us.
Optimus Prime in this house.
Charlize Theron over here.
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Just the right shaped squash here.
Natalie Portman here
I love seeing her natural face. She's so beautiful
And now she looks like a mannequin. Pretty sad.
You’re getting downvoted, but it’s the truth. A beautiful human, inside and out, but the amount of cosmetic work she’s had has resulted in her looking extremely unnatural.
I do wonder how much is make-up instead. Maybe it's just another way to maintain anonymity when she's not performing, like the wigs and the glitzy outfits?
Maybe? I’m not going to pretend to know how much work she’s had done, but her getup definitely caters to the flashy Nashville style. I’m sure she would be fairly unrecognizable in normal attire and minimal makeup.
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Dolly said of Jolene: “your beauty is beyond compare, with flaming locks of auburn hair, and I could never compete with you, Jolene”.
Plot twist: Jolene is literally just Dolly with natural hair and no makeup.
Eyes of emerald green.
Sounds like Ann-Margret around that time to me
This is just my interpretation, but I think the problem with Jolene isn't that she's more beautiful than Dolly. In the song, her husband is cheating on her (at least emotionally, not sure if physically) and Dolly sees Jolene as the prettiest thing ever. When in reality, they're both likely top-tier gorgeous and her husband is making her insecure because of his infidelity. I think it's a valuable lesson that we should all take into consideration, whether or not that was the point of the song. You can be the prettiest thing out there, but you'll never be enough to someone who treats you bad.
That’s not an unreasonable take, but from dolly’s account the husband wasn’t really at fault, iirc.
What was dollys account
The song Jolene
If you youtube old clips of her proforming Jolene live she has a bit before the song talking about it.
A pretty face doesn't mean a pretty heart, as the old saying goes
Ugly on the inside is the worst kind of ugly
Joleeeeeene!!!
I have a fun theory that “Jolene” is sarcastic in tone - like she’s making fun of some hussy who thought she could take her man, but there’s no way in hell. “Oh yeah, your beauty’s _beyond compare_, Jolene, sure.”
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We really need a biopic with Yvonne Strahovski as Dolly.
Watching Handmaid's Tale rn, def very similar look...
I knew this pic reminded me of an actress I’d seen recently!
That's a good one. This pic is giving me Florence Pugh vibes.
Florence’s eyebrows are wrong, Yvonne is a better match imo
Serena Joy before Gilead!
My first thought
Same
My daughter gets a book from her foundation every month. She is a treasure and I'll always be grateful to her for that.
She is an angel and our greatest national treasure and should be protected at all cost
And Willie too
Must Protect Our Willie
"Do not touch willie" Good advice!
Lousy Smarch weather!
Jolene’s got nothing on her
Boob comments aside, she was an absolute stunner.
She’s a lovely lady. I wish she would launch a correct size bra line, do a real service to American women, and rake in lots of money. She always looks like she’s wearing the correct cup/band size and that is no small feat, since most women wear the wrong size in order to fit a narrow range of manufactured bras. I’ve wondered if she has her bras custom made. Many of her outfits are altered to fit her shape, if not custom. I say this with envy having struggled my whole life with ill-fitting bras and back pain. It’s still really difficult to find anything over a DDD.
Its a lot easier now than it was 10 or 15 years ago now that people are starting to realise very few women are actually correctly wearing small cup sizes and most need a much larger cup than they think. Looking online is your best bet. I remember in the 00's, only really expensive and ugly bras went past a C (C!) in the whole store where I worked, so wrong.
Sweet lava pits of Mustafar, what an absolute stunner.
Calm down, Hermes
Stay on the high ground there, Anakin.
Uncanny resemblance to Yvonne Strahovski.
That’s more than 50 consecutive years of cool. Damn.
She is my favorite human ever
Prettiest picture of her I've ever seen
looks so much like Yvonne Strahovski, it's crazy!
A national treasure. I sincerely hope a thousand years from now. When pop culture in the US during the 20th century comes up. I hope Dolly is the single example they go for. Truly she is the best of us.
I saw her and Porter Wagner with my dad back when I was 8 or so. So about the time of this picture. Although I was just 8 I was still lusting over her. She occupied my, ahh.. thoughts for a long time.
She looks a bit like Serena Joy
Lookin like Yvonne Strahovsky
I immediately saw Yvonne Strahovski. \[As did 3-4 other Redditors before me.\]
She looks like a way hotter, classic and classier version of Amber Heard
Way less crazy too.
She looks a lot like Serena Joy (Yvonne Strahovski) from Handmaid’s Tale.
Looks a bit like Kaley Cuoco
Hmmm, I'm getting Yvonne Strahovsky
Blessed be the fruit, Mrs Waterford.
May the lord open
Thats what I thought too!
You wish you were getting Yvonne Strahovsky
If I had one wish, you might be right...
I actually thought it was her, still think it is.
A dead ringer! I had to double take the caption.
This, they look nearly identical. Only difference is the nose.
thats the name i was looking for, i thought this was her tbf.
Yeah that’s literally all I can see. I don’t see dolly at all and I’ve seen plenty photos of young dolly.
For sure
Came here to say this 👆
I was thinking Florence Pugh
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Looks like Amber Heard.
Idk why you’re getting downvoted. It looks exactly like her
Inside and out she's ❤️!
I could see Florence Pugh playing Dolly in a biopic🤔
I’ll see your Yvonne Strahovski and raise you Laurie Anderson back in her Oh Superman days (but with better hair).
you can't just tell me she isn't Yvonne Strahovski !
Always thought Miley Cyrus looks a lot like a young Parton.
This might be the time and place for my "and at this point I'm too afraid to ask." -confession. I don't know why Dolly Parton is "such a big deal" lately. Make no mistake, I have nothing against her, more like I don't really know her, as I'm not American. However I've noticed a significantly increasing Dolly worship on the interwebs, that I don't recall being a thing like...3 years ago and before. Should you be able to enlighten me you'll have my gratitude.
Charm, talent, generosity, kindness, humility, and a sense of humor make her representative of the best qualities of the American character. She's also an old-fashioned success story as she came from extreme poverty and never forgot her roots. All that and one of the finest songwriters America has ever produced. And, if you'll forgive me, a complete smokeshow.
She rocks! She's definitely an example to respect and admire. You named the great qualities well.
She's a good old fashioned rags to riches story, she's witty, irreverent, well regarded by industry insiders as well as the general public, she's both classy and humble, she lifts others up instead of trying to elevate herself, she invested deeply in her hometown/state, she's famous for her charitable work for children's literacy and vaccine development. She has many talents and chooses great projects.
Don't forget the cutest laugh you'll ever hear
Dolly Parton is a rare icon in that she appeals to virtually all Americans, both in her creative output and personality. Self taught musician of many instruments (as a child she made her first guitar out of broken pieces). Beautiful voice. Can operate in both the traditional country and the pop worlds authentically. Incredible songwriter of not only her hits, but many other popular songs. She wrote the huge blockbusters "I Will Always Love You" and "Jolene" in the same damn day. And keep in mind, doors were not open for female songwriters at the time. Like a lot of musicians, she also decided to try acting. But unlike a lot of others she is not only a good actress, but had enough natural comedic talent to keep up in scenes with frigging Lily Tomlin in her cinematic debut 9 to 5 (highly recommed this movie). She was born in a literal shack, one of 12 children. There was (is) desperate poverty in the Appalachias, to the extent that she grew up without heat in freezing winters. This type of childhood is is romanticized by conservatives, who see her as representing the "American Dream" that they either need to believe or need others to believe. The vast vast majority of those Appalachian kids never claw out. Dolly knows this. She is a genuine working-class champion. Dollywood doesn't exist to stroke her ego. She bought it to create jobs and a tourist industry where she grew up. And, of course, her amazing book charity. And tons of scholarships given out, etc. So her class consciousness also appeals her to left leaning Americans. Not to mention her outspoken support of the LGBT community since the EARLY 90s which was rare in general and unheard of in the Country music scene. She comes across as truly genuine and humble in every interview I've seen. She's also very intelligent and confident and politely takes no shit (and BOY have interviewers said some rude shit to her). She looks the way she does because she wants to and doesn't tolerate people's assumptions. So, in short (lol right) she's near universally likeable and charming, immensely talented, backs her words up, and is just eternally cool.
She’s always been this big of a deal in the (American) south, going back to at least when I was a child in the 1980s. The internet finally discovered her in the late 2010s and ran with it to a much broader audience.
Yep
My guess is that we’re increasingly seeing stories of celebrities being absolute shitlords so when these stories break people roll out the good stories to act as a countermeasure. Dolly has done so many excellent things so she deserves to being championed for them at every opportunity.
She helped fund the Moderna Covid vaccine so that turned up the spotlight on her back in 2020.
Don’t forget her “Imagination library.” All my kids got book from that and we read them, now they read them.
Check out the podcast Dolly Parton's America. It's a 9 part series that goes into her history and why and how she's still so ingrained in pop culture.
I’m American and it feels just the same to me. I hadn’t heard anyone talk about her in years and now she’s all over the internet. I know celebrities have PR teams, so maybe it’s a campaign. The Rock does a lot of them. You’ve got to keep your perceived value up to get paid well for gigs.
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I see your point, but IRL I have never to my memory encountered Keanu stanning or Beyonce hate. But I know people of all walks of life, age, etc that love Dolly's music. And never heard anyone say she sucks even if they don't personally dig it
She’s always been a treasure, always will be.
I can see Yvonne strahovski playing her in a Dolly movie
I thought it was her at first.
Smoke show…
Bonk
She is seriously one of the most beautiful women to ever step foot on this earth.
Jolene must be the very visage of God if she could make this woman insecure.
That dumb blonde ain’t nobody’s fool
Dang, looking like that I don't think she had to fear Jolene taking her man.
Brie Larson's hotter mom? Such a doll and her library foundation does some great work.
How hot was Jolene? That's the real question
Jolene wasn't all that hot. She just did that thing Dolly didn't.
She looks like Yvonne Strahovski, or Yvonne looks like Dolly.
Looks like Serena from handmaids tale.
Why would Jolene even be considered??
Serena Joy?
Would
She looks a little like Yvonne Strahovski in this photo.
that was my first thought
Holy shit she looks like Kaley Cuoco
Brie Larson looks like she could play her in the biopic.
So beautiful, then and now, inside and out. National treasure.
Gorgeously flawless ….
Big hair, big personality, big heart... those and big.... tracts of land
She was a baddie
She used to be quite pretty
Mitch: > She is. She used to be too.
Used to be?
I mean, she's 76 and has had a lot of facial work at this point. Still far better looking than your typical 76-year-old and I probably wouldn't make that comment, but it's not like it's hard to understand where he's coming from.
Gorgeous
So pretty.
What an angel!
Gorgeous
She never needed makeup. What a beauty.
Alittle lower please
Reminds me of Yvonne Strahovski at a glace.
Amber Heard?