Dolly Parton is truly the queen of everything.
Fashion? Check.
Music? Check.
Activism? Check.
Relationship goals? Check.
Keeping tattoo’s a secret for the entirety of her six decade long career?! CHECK!!!!
Now, Dolly is finally spilling the tea about those tattoo rumors that have been floating around the internet for years and I, for one, couldn’t be more excited to learn more!
Dolly is truly the definition of a GODDESS PRINCESS SPARKLE QUEEN!
Not only does she do, say and wear whatever she wants, the 74-year-old legend has given fans everywhere a role model to look up to.
For years now, fans have speculated that Dolly always covers up her arms in an effort to conceal her arm sleeve tattoos. I know, right? How rockstar is that?!

Chatting with People magazine, Dolly confirmed she does have tattoos, but not in the way fans had always imagined!
“I do have some tattoos, that’s true,” the feminist icon revealed. “But they’re tasteful. I’m not a tattoo girl.”
“My tattoos are pretty, they’re artful and they usually started out to cover some scar, not to make a big statement,” she explained.
Dolly continued: “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.”
She explained she got the tattoo’s to turn her negative experience into something beautiful: “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.”
Unfortunately, there’s no tattoo for hubby of 54 years, Carl Dean: “No, he’s tattooed on my heart. Who knows, I may get some more later. I may just have to get covered with tattoos just so everybody could be right!”
Ugh, I love her!
h/t: People
Last Updated on September 25, 2020 by Anastasia Ross