Her best-kept secret. Dolly Parton and her husband, Carl Dean, have been married for more than 50 years, but they’re rarely seen together — and that’s just the way they like it.The country icon first met her future spouse when she moved to Nashville in 1964 to start her music career.
They tied the knot within two years of meeting each other, but as Parton’s star rose, Dean kept to himself. Eventually, fans started to wonder if the “Jolene” singer’s husband even existed.“He just don’t have any desire to be in show business,” the Tennessee native told Playboy in October 1978. “He don’t want to have his picture in the paper.
He don’t want to go out to the supermarket and have people say, ‘That’s Dolly Parton’s husband.'”Though the Grammy winner — the fourth of 12 children — grew up in a huge family, she and Dean never had any kids of their own.
Parton, however, is known for her Imagination Library charity, which has sent more than 100 million free books to young children since she founded it in 1995.“God has a plan for everything,” the 9 to 5 actress explained during an October 2017 interview with the Today show. “I think it probably was his plan for me not to have kids so everybody’s kids could be mine.
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