Weight loss was not easy

Press, 7 December 1988, Page 21

Weight loss was not easy

When Dolly Parton (“Dolly,” tonight at 7.30 Two) turned 40, she says she decided to take stock of her situation.

She began by taking off her excess weight, but shedding the pounds was not an easy task. “I love to eat, I’m a hog at heart, and I love to cook,” she says. The weekly variety series, Dolly Parton says, was the incentive which helped her shed her surplus poundage. Twenty-two and a half kilograms lighter, and having been “on every diet known to man, and then some, over a period of about four years,” the star puts the secret of her success down to “sheer will power.” “A lot of my friends think I’m to skinny because they’ve seen me fat for too long,” she says. “Some worry that I might be anorexic and that I might be sick.

“That’s horsefeathers! “I’ve had my ups and downs, my illlnesses and my fights with weight, but I’m better now than I ever was.” Dolly Parton’s guests tonight are Miss Piggy and Juice Newton, who in 1981 had a hit with her single “Angel of the Morning.”