Dolly Parton is a legendary singer-songwriter, but she’s also a family gal at heart. The “Jolene” songstress and country music icon has quite a few brothers and sisters — 11 siblings, in fact — and she’s shared her career in the spotlight with them.

Dolly was raised by her two parents, Avie Lee Caroline and Robert Lee Parton Sr. , in a one-room cabin with her siblings! “It was crowded!” Dolly told The Guardian in 2016. “With that many brothers and sisters there was plenty of teasing and fighting but we were all in it together.”

Although the family struggled financially, Dolly said they always made the best of it. “We were poor but I never felt poor,” she explained to the outlet. “We always had food, a roof over our heads and clothes on our backs. It wasn’t exactly what

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