The Book of Dolly
I’ve never met Dolly Parton, but she has had a profound influence on my life. Growing up in the 1980’s there were very few women on TV with large natural breasts. Most women with big boobs were portrayed as bimbos. And then… there was Dolly.
Elegant, talented and beautiful. She had a heart of gold underneath her Tennessee Mountains. Dolly is a master of seducing you with her natural charm. She taught me everything I needed to know about how to have big boobs. From how to handle advances from men to how to hold my head high when women sneered at my cleavage. Her ability to flip a comment and make a man blush has always amazed me to this day.
“People make jokes about my bosoms, why don’t they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It’s obvious I’ve got big ones and if people want to assume they’re not mine, then let them,” Parton once said. Yes, Dolly, many of us have ‘big ones’, and we are judged for them all the time.
As a young woman I was ridiculed and discriminated against for developing at a young age. Society often associates female development with flirtatious attention from males, but for me girl-on-girl bullying about my early development and size was more more traumatic than being hitting on by high school boys. The older I got the more I learned to deflect comments and respond with with Dolly-style humor. Instead of being offended and making enemies, I made friends because I had big tits and I was funny.
When I got my first job in NYC after college I tried so hard to wear clothes that hid my then 34F cups because I wanted to look professional. I searched department stores for dresses with high neck lines that actually looked stylish and fit my body. Working in the entertainment industry I had a few of my own ‘me too’ moments so I was always concerned with covering up the girls. Dollyism served me well in work environments too, and I learned to respond to men with jokes like “Why are you trying to get me fired?”. Again, humor disarmed male colleagues, and showed them I was comfortable working in a boys club environment.
Now, at a size 36K, I feel honored to be an ambassador for voluptuous women. My large chest is absolutely a part of my identity. How could it not be? Today my authentic brand is big boobs and humor, and I’m putting it all out there for the world to see (pun intended). Dolly taught me how to use my brains and my boobs, my heart and my sense of humor. Perhaps, most importantly, she taught me how to find my power and be confident in sharing my natural talents with the world. For all this, thank you, Dolly.
