Dolly Parton recalls criticism over 'cheap' style: 'People wanted me to change'
foxnews.comDolly Parton is opening up about the advice she didn't follow early on in her career. The country music icon recently dished about her distinguished career in music, her new book with James Patterson, and what it was like growing up "poor" to becoming one of the biggest stars on the planet.
In a new interview, the singer and songwriter revealed that many people tried to get her to change her look – but she didn't budge. "The main advice that people wanted to give me was to change my look and to go simpler with my hair and the way that I dress.
Not to look so cheap, nobody was ever going to take me seriously, they would say," Parton, 76, said on the "Work Life" with Adam Grant podcast.
Dolly Parton opened up about being asked to switch up her "cheap" style. (Getty Images) The "9 to 5" hitmaker went on to share that the way she presented herself was her own choice. "The way I look and the way I looked then was a country girl's idea of glam, just like I wrote in my 'Backwoods Barbie' song.
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