In a Glamour UK article, Parton disclosed that she and her husband did think about having kids when they first got married. "I grew up in a family of twelve, and there's eight children younger than me," she explained to HuffPost. So it's a bit surprising that the star decided to opt out of having a big family of her own. She said, "If we'd had a girl, she was gonna be called Carla... Anyway, we talked about it, and we dreamed it, but it wasn't meant to be."
"You always wonder. My husband and I, when we first got married, we thought about if we had kids, what would they look like?" she said. "Would they be tall — because he's tall? Or would they be little squats like me?"
Now that the couple is older, they are glad they didn't have kids. Although Parton thinks she would have been a great mother, she would have given up on everything else. "Because I would've felt guilty about that, if I'd have left them [to work, to tour]," she said. "Everything would have changed. I probably wouldn't have been a star."
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