Dolly Parton. Courtesy of (Donna Svennevik/ABC)Country music icon Dolly Parton has been happily married for 46 years, but the world would never know it if she didn't say so. Despite having been with the same man, Carl Dean, since the couple first met back in 1964 at a laundromat, Parton's husband is almost never spotted in public. The singer/actress has previously said he simply stays out of the spotlight, and in a recent interview with Reuters, jokes about the fact that some fans have doubts there even is a Carl Dean.
"They don't think he really exists!" exclaims Parton, 66. "When I was doing my show, we were thinking about having a different guy knock on the door every night, as my husband, and then one night he would be a midget, and one night he would be a black man, and one night he would be like a boxer or a wrestler, all these different things that people imagine what my husband looks like."
Despite the fact that many celebs who tie the knot at a young age end up divorcing, Parton and husband Dean, who were 20 and 24 respectively when they wed, are still together, in part, because Dean isn't interested in the celebrity lifestyle, Parton explained in a 2010 interview with Oprah Winfrey. "He's proud of me. He's just basically shy about things like that. He doesn't like crowds," she told Winfrey. "And I respect his privacy. I respect the fact that he loves to be out of the limelight. That's one of the reasons I think we've lasted so long." The couple met on the day Parton arrived in Nashville in 1964. "I wasn't a star then, so I've never had to worry that he loves me because I'm a star and I've got money or make money or whatever. I know he loves me for me, and that means a lot to me."
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