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Dolly Parton Revealed the Name She Had Picked Out for a Baby Girl

August 27, 2026

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Watch: Dolly Parton’s Most Memorable E! News Interviews With Jennifer Aniston & MoreDolly Parton had one name she would always love.While the celebrated country star—who died Aug. 25 after a brief battle with cancer at the age of 80—and her late husband Carl Deannever had kids together during their nearly six decades of marriage, the two were certainly considering the possibly early on and even had a name picked out if they’d welcomed a daughter. “You always wonder. My husband and I, when we first got married, we thought about if we had kids, what would they look like? Would they be tall—because he’s tall? Or would they be little squats like me?” Parton shared with The Guardian in 2014. “If we’d had a girl, she was gonna be called Carla.”“Anyway, we talked about it, and we dreamed it,” she continued, “but it wasn’t meant to be.”And while the Grammy winner battled endometriosis and had a partial hysterectomy in her 30s, as she and Dean got older they were glad they’d never had children. readMiley Cyrus Details Final Conversation With Godmother Dolly Parton Before Death“I would have been a great mother, I think. I would probably have given up everything else,”… Read More

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