<p>You wouldn’t know by looking at her, but Dolly Parton‘s life wasn’t always glamour and glitter!</p><br /><p>In fact, her family was so impoverished, her father paid the doctor who delivered her with a bag of oatmeal, she has revealed.</p><br /><p>The queen of country music grew up in one-room cabin in rural Tennessee, which she shared with 11 siblings and her parents.</p><br /><p></p><br /><p>“I think being poor has been good for me,” said Parton, 71, who’s now estimated to be worth around half a billion dollars. “I saw how my mom and dad struggled, and how they could stretch a dollar.”</p><br /><p>“Even now, if I am thinking about spending a lot on clothing or furniture, I think, ‘I can’t spend so much on one thing — my poor old daddy could have raised his family five years on that!'”</p><br /><p>For more of Dolly’s juiciest secrets and scandals, tune in to National Enquirer Investigates, April 12 at 9/8 central on REELZ!</p><br /><p>The post The Inside Story: Dolly Parton Battles Guilt Over Her Rags To Riches Story</a> appeared first on Star Magazine</a>.</p><br />
