Dolly Parton Couldn’t Have a Kid & Became a Protective ‘Fairy Godmother’ to Miley Cyrus Who Is like Her

• Dolly Parton learned she couldn’t have kids in 1984.
• She became a protective godmother to pop singer Miley Cyrus.
• The two share a special bond that has seen them speak sweetly of one another and support each other’s careers.

Country music legend Dolly Parton has been married to her husband, Carl Thomas Dean, for 57 years. The two, who tied the knot on May 30, 1966, have no kids. Parton opened up about why she never had kids.

In 1982, the singer experienced painful abdominal bleeding that forced her to seek medical help and cancel a tour. Again, in 1984, she went through a partial hysterectomy and was told she would never be able to have kids.

This news put the singer into a two-year depression and pushed her into scaling down her professional commitments. She admitted that the period was a horrible time for her but that she viewed it as a message from God, who was telling her to slow down so that she could deal with the stuff in her life.

Parton added that God has a plan for everything and that it was his plan for her not to have kids so that everyone else’s children would become hers. However, she said that prior to her health issues, she and her husband had discussed having children. The two had wondered if their kids would be tall like Dean or short like her. They even came up with the name Carla for their future daughter.

Parton has accepted that their dream to become parents wasn’t meant to be, and as she and her husband got older, they realized it was best that they never embarked on parenthood.

Parton believed that if she had become a mother, she would have given up everything else out of guilt from going on tour and leaving her kids at home. Nothing would have remained the same if the singer had become a parent, and she probably wouldn’t be a country music legend. Still, the singer got to be a mother in other ways by becoming a godmother to an iconic pop singer.

Parton became the godmother of Miley Cyrus because she was a good friend to Cyrus’ father, Billy Ray Cyrus. When Cyrus was born, her...