In fact, the 77-year-old recently revealed that she wakes up incredibly early as some of her ‘best writing’ comes in the wee hours.
Whilst most people would be thinking of slowing down, it seems the 9 to 5 singer is doing the exact opposite.
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During her recent interview with Ru Paul for Marie Claire Magazine, the country musician and actress joked that she was ‘a very, very early riser’.
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She also admitted to the Drag Racestar that she will often struggle to go back to sleep once she’s up during the early hours.
“If I wake up and I’m pretty well awake, I think, ‘I’ve got so much to do,’ I’ll get up and I’ll work a little while, write a little while, and I’ll lay back down,” Parton revealed.
If you are wondering what time the 'Jolene' singer’s alarm goes off, most mornings she’s awake around 3 am.
Though most of us would struggle with anything at this time, the veteran performer revealed that she’s comfortable with just three to five hours sleep.
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However, the Dollywood owner doesn’t seem to mind as she gets some of her ‘best’ work done during these hours.
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After brief meditation and prayer, Parton then gets to work.
“I have my little meditations I do, my little scriptures that I read, and all that. That’s how I start my day,” she told Charles, adding: “Some of my best spiritual work, some of my best writing, and some of my business work—call-ins and letters that I’m writing or whatever.”
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Without the distraction of others around her, the star revealed that she feels pretty zen from 3 to 7am as she focuses on the start of her day.
“I get more work done during that little period of time when the world is calm, energies are down, and I just feel like a farmer,” she revealed.
“They say the early bird gets the worm. Well, they also get a lot of good ideas too.”
After that, it’s either a ‘little power nap’ or straight on to breakfast - with Parton’s husband occasionally treating her to ‘some sausage patties, biscuits and milk gravy’.
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“Now, I can’t eat like that all the time, but I enjoy eating it when I do,” she added, saying that she then continues on with her day.
Would you be willing to give up sleep for a 3 am start like Dolly?
“If I wake up and I'm pretty well awake, I think, 'I've got so much to do,' I'll get up and I'll work a little while, write a little while, and I'll lay back down,” Parton revealed. If you are wondering what time the 'Jolene' singer's alarm goes off, most mornings she's awake around 3 am.
As it turns out, she does not sleep all that often, getting just three to five hours per night. Apparently, she's fine with this amount of sleep and can function perfectly. “I'm a very, very, very early riser,” Parton noted in the interview. “I go to bed pretty early, but I'm up and down.
“I'm usually having my coffee and doing my spiritual things around 3 o'clock in the morning," she says. "I do my readings and my affirmations and my prayers and all that. Then I'll start drinking my coffee and make something to eat.
Dolly Parton's 57-year marriage to Carl Thomas Dean proves that couples don't have to be cut from the same cloth to make love last. Back in 2023, the star got candid about why their marriage just works.
Dolly Parton may be working "9 to 5," but she's actually getting up much earlier than that! During an interview with Insider that published on Sunday, the country music legend opened up about the simplicity of her morning routine, revealing that she hops out of bed at 3 a.m. every day.
But what is the country star's secret when it comes to staying so fit? You may have heard of something called the Dolly Parton Diet — which consists of eating cabbage soup (yes, cabbage soup!) as your main meals along with fruit and vegetables.
The "Jolene" singer says she'll always try to have makeup on to look presentable as long as she's leaving the house. "I'm going to clean up a little if I'm going outside, unless there's an absolute emergency, and it would have to be pretty serious. I would do it then, but that would be the only way," Parton said.
The 'Jolene' singer met her spouse at a laundromat in 1964, and they have an 'open' marriage – but no kids. The love story between Dolly Parton and her one and only husband of nearly six decades, Carl Thomas Dean, could have come straight out of a country romance ballad.
Then, a few years ago, Parton set the record straight during an interview with People in 2020. "I do have some tattoos, that's true," she told the publication. "But they're tasteful.
On her first day in the city, Parton crossed paths with Carl Dean outside a local laundromat. Dean, three years older than her, was instantly captivated by Parton. “I was at the laundromat, the Wishy‐Washy. I'd come to Nashville with dirty clothes.
Throughout the Week, Parton Follows a Low-Carb Diet
The 12-time Grammy winner is mindful of what she eats and said, "If I'm working I'll stay on a low-carb diet during the week and then eat anything I want on the weekends."
With steady success during the remainder of the 1960s (both as a solo artist and with a series of duet albums with Porter Wagoner), her sales and chart peak came during the 1970s and continued into the 1980s; Parton's subsequent albums in the later part of the 1990s were lower in sales.
The overarching structure of Parton's giving is the “Dollywood Foundation.” Over the years, the foundation has taken on several different initiatives including hospitals, animal sanctuaries, and scholarships. She even donated $1 million towards COVID-19 vaccine research. Her philanthropy has attracted big donors.
Dolly Rebecca Parton was born on January 19, 1946, in Sevier County, Tennessee. The Partons were a farming family, and Dolly had eleven siblings. From a young age, it was clear that Dolly had a talent for music.After she received a guitar when she was eight, she started writing her own music.
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