Dolly Parton Celebrated Her Birthday With Her Own Branded Cake, Reveals Her Book Is Being Turned Into A Movie
etcanada.comLet us eat cake because Dolly Parton just celebrated her 76th birthday and wrote a book. The singer, whose music recently reached three billion worldwide streams, told “CBS Mornings” that it’s “an honour” to know that so many people admire and respect her to such a great degree but it also “scares [her] to death sometimes.” READ MORE: Dolly Parton Says She Doesn’t Think ‘It’d Kill Anybody To Wear Their Mask’ “I am always saying, ‘I am not all that’ and even ‘not all there’ sometimes.
It makes me feel good. I have been around long enough for people to feel they know me and accepted me,” Parton told Gayle King. “Now that I’m older they think of me as a favourite sister or aunt.
It’s sweet for people to say all those nice things about me. I will try to live up to it.” Parton, who is also “cooking up” a new partnership with Duncan Hines, said that she celebrated her birthday with “a banana-flavoured cream cake” from her own line of cake mixes. “I love a banana pudding….
I chose the banana one. I was 76 years old! I have been cooking a long time,” she said. The “9 to 5” singer joked that she couldn’t even run away from her age if she wanted to. “Well, I try not to think about the number and I couldn’t lie about it anyway because I have been in show business my whole life everybody knows how old I am,” she said. “I don’t feel old and in my mind I remember my life was in a great spot when I was 35 and I remember thinking this is a great time in my life so I chose to kind of think I am 35 all the time in my mind no matter what the numbers say.
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