Dolly Parton recreates Playboy look for husband’s birthday

Dolly Parton always has the best taste in gifts, whether we’re talking about the gift of her music, her love of philanthropy, or her push for children’s literacy. This time around, the country singer gifted her husband of over fifty years, Carl Dean,  herself as a Playboy Bunny.

Parton recreated her iconic 1978 Playboy Magazine cover, dressed in the classic Bunny gear-ears and all in a Twitter post dedicated to Carl for his birthday on July 20th.

In the clip, Parton says:

"“I did a little photoshoot in this little outfit and I had a cover made of the new Dolly. The first one, remember this? I was kind of a little butterball in that one. Well, I’m string cheese now. But he’ll probably think I’m cream cheese… I hope.”"

“He still thinks I’m a ‘hot chick’ after 57 years,” Dolly beams. (We do too, by the way.)

Check out the sweet post below.

She also quipped that Playboy should compensate her for doing the photoshoot and using the Playboy brand and look. It doesn’t matter as it was all in good fun.

Last year, Dolly donated $1 million for COVID-19 research to Nashville’s Vanderbilt University.  With the money and other donations, Vanderbilt helped develop the Moderna vaccine that is currently being distributed around the country and the world.

Among her other philanthropic efforts, Dolly launched her own nonprofit, Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library in 1995.  The program mails out free children’s books, regardless of income to young children up to age five. Its mission is to inspire America’s youth to read and that no child should be without a book.  At the beginning of the pandemic last year, Dolly hosted a video series of her reading some of the books that the Imagination Library endorses to help ease some of the discomfort children were experiencing during quarantine.

What do you think of Dolly’s Playboy present?  Let us know in the comments section.