Nevertheless, popular and iconic country superstar said that she’s glad she and her husband never had kids.
She said, “If we’d had a girl, she was gonna be called Carla… “You always wonder.
“Would they be tall because he’s tall?
Or would they be little squats like me?”
Now that the couple is older, they are glad they didn’t have kids.
Although Parton thinks she would have been a great mother, she would have given up on everything else.
“Everything would have changed.
I probably wouldn’t have been a star.”
This news deeply saddened her.
“Suddenly I was a middle-aged woman,” says Parton.
“I went through a dark time, until I made myself snap out of it.”
The couple could have adopted but Parton says, “I guess I didn’t have the time.
Despite not having her own children, kids still love her.
Parton says her resemblance to Mother Goose is what makes kids want to be around her.
“I have that high-pitched voice…
Her charity,Imagination Library, and children’s albumI Believe in You, have helped children enormously.
Parton is a family person through and through.
Some of the songs on the album address bullying and how to be responsible.
“So I bring them over to visit me by choice.
They don’t get dumped on me.
But thegodmotherofMiley Cyrus(and cool aunt) says she’s decorated her house with kids in mind.
“I got tree houses,” she toldMadeForMums.
“I got caves.
I love to babysit ‘cause it gives me a chance to play.”
Thesingeris still living large and living fun surrounding herself with family and youngsters every day.
