Country music icon Dolly Parton (75) recreated the Playboy outfit she once wore decades ago to celebrate her husband’s birthday.
Parton posted a video wearing bunny ears and a tight-fitting outfit, captioning it on her personal page: “Hello! Today is July 20 — my husband Carl’s birthday. You’re probably wondering why I’m dressed like this. Because it’s my husband’s birthday!”
Dolly Parton on the 1978 Playboy cover and now. Photos: Playboy, Dolly Parton/Twitter.
At the end of the video, she joked: “Playboy should pay me to do a new photoshoot — but let’s see if the fans agree first.”
Her outfit recreates her iconic October 1978 Playboy cover. Among countless famous beauties, she was the first country singer ever to appear on the magazine’s cover.
She told Page Six: “I once said I’d pose for Playboy at 75. Well, I’m 75 now. My husband has always loved that cover, so I tried to come up with something that would make him happy. He still thinks I’m a hot girl after 57 years together.”
Married since May 1966, Dolly Parton and Carl Thomas Dean are one of entertainment’s most admired couples, celebrated for their enduring happy marriage.
The singer with her husband.
Born in 1946, Dolly Parton is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. She is one of the most successful country artists ever, with 26 No. 1 singles and 42 Top 10 albums on Billboard’s Country Albums chart. She wrote and originally recorded “I Will Always Love You” — the classic song later performed by the late Whitney Houston in the 1992 film The Bodyguard. The cloned sheep Dolly — the world’s first successfully cloned mammal — was named after her.
