For years, there have been rumors that Dolly Parton wears long sleeves because her arms are covered in tattoos. Is it true? That is what
People wanted to find out, so they asked her.
“I do have some tattoos, that’s true,” Parton told the magazine. “But they’re tasteful. I’m not a tattoo girl.”.
However, since Dolly is a girly girl, she says that her ink is pretty and artful. Then she explained that she got them to cover up some scars. “Ribbons and bows and butterflies are the things that I have. I was very sick for a while and I had to wear a feeding tube. It left a little indention in my side and I didn’t like it because I’m so fair that scars turn purple on me.”
Parton added, “I like to make positives out of negatives. I had a little beehive tattooed over it — a little yellow-and-brown beehive with a tiny little bee on top of the hive. The mouth of it is that little sinkhole.”
Talking about positives, the most positive thing in the singer’s life is her husband, Carl Dean of 54 years. Does she have his name anywhere on her body? It is one place we can’t see, her heart.
Although, Parton says she might get his name added to her body along with other tats, “just so everybody could be right!”
