At 74 years old, Dolly Parton's pneumatic figure could be mistaken for that of a woman a fraction of her age. From her tiny 18-inch waist to her famously slender frame, the Jolene singer's body is the envy of most.
But in her new book, , Dolly reveals the grim and often debilitating lengths she's gone to to maintain it. As a natural lover of food, the star admits she's resorted to drastic - and not recommended - measures to take the pounds off.
Even as far back at 1978, the Smoky Mountains-born singer was fretting about her size and once barricaded herself in her hotel room to stop herself eating the restaurant's fried clams.
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