Country Music icon Dolly Parton turned lucky 77 this past January 19th, but the birthday milestone didn’t make her worried about aging. “Honestly, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, when I see young people today and I see what they’re going to have to go through, especially in this day and time, I would honestly rather be this age than that age,” Parton told Insider. “They say wisdom comes with age, and you can’t stop the aging process, nor the numbers.”
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But Parton refused to be discouraged by the number of candles on her birthday cake. “Of course, everyone would like to stay 35 forever, and in my mind I kind of do,” Parton quipped. “But I can’t get caught in that trap of thinking, ‘I’ve got to do this or that.’ The way I live, the way I work, the way I feel, I’m going to make every moment count. I may live to be 100 or I may die tomorrow, but whenever that is, I will know I died trying, and I will know I’ve done everything I could to make the most of everything.”
“As long as I stay healthy, the numbers shouldn’t matter,” the 9 to 5 star reasoned. “I don’t feel my age, I don’t work my age, I don’t think my age, and hopefully, I don’t look my age!”
Even at 77, Dolly Parton still gets up at 3 am to start her day
Even at 77, Dolly has the stamina of someone half her age. She still routinely gets up at 3 a.m. to start her day. “I don’t need a whole lot of sleep,” she explained. “I go to bed pretty early, but even if I’ve been up late, it’s just kind of like a little clock inside of me that says, ‘It’s 3 o’clock!'”
Parton insists she gets plenty of rest. “I don’t require as much sleep as a lot of other people do. That’s kind of a Parton family trait.”
To make matters even better, Parton has managed to maintain her youthful appearance without using any costly anti-aging skincare products. “I don’t do any big rituals with my skin or anything, and I don’t think you have to pay a ton of money to have good products,” Parton explained. “Most of the products that cost less are just as good, and sometimes better than the ones that cost a fortune.”
Another way Dolly stays young is by pushing herself musically. She’s currently at work on an upcoming rock album… a first for the country crooner. On a recent appearance on The View, Parton elaborated on her reasoning behind a rock-infused album. “If I’m going to be in the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame, I better do something to earn it,” she explained. “So I’m doing a rock ‘n’ roll album and I’m having a lot of the rock stars that I met that night be on the album with me.”
