Dolly Parton’s niece reveals she’s NEVER seen her famous aunt without make-up and recalls raiding the singer’s wardrobe as a child and trying on her iconic wigs

Dolly Parton is known for her glamorous outfits and niece Jada Star has revealed she has never seen the singer without make-up.

Jada, the daughter of country star Frieda’s younger sister, said that despite her best efforts as a child, she was never able to catch the now 78-year-old “unglamorous” and would instead raid her wardrobe and steal her iconic blonde wigs to fit. .

She remembered a two-week family trip to Hawaii The mirror: ‘I remember one night I tried my hardest to wake up before everyone else so I could see her without makeup, but that didn’t happen.’

“I’ve never seen her without glamor in my life; there have only been a handful that have done so. But from what I’ve heard, you’d still know it’s her. She is naturally beautiful.”

Jada, who will perform at Glastonbury herself this year and also recently appeared on reality show Claim To Fame, added: ‘[Dolly] jokes about all the unnatural things and all the nips and tucks, but when you see pictures of her as a teenager, she’s the bomb. She’s beautiful – she’s always been beautiful, inside and out’.

Jada, the daughter of iconic singer Frieda’s younger sister, said that despite her best efforts as a child, she was never able to catch the now 78-year-old ‘non-glam’ (Dolly pictured in March)

Instead, she would raid her aunt’s wardrobe and try on her iconic blonde wigs (pictured)

It comes after Dolly previously revealed she had been sleeping in her make-up every night for decades in case of an ’emergency’.

She admitted that she chooses to sleep in a full face of glamor in case she is spotted by unexpected photographers on the street.

In her book Behind The Seams: My Life In Rhinestones, Dolly confessed that the habit started in the 1980s.

She wrote, “When I arrived in LA in the 80s, I started sleeping with my makeup on, partly because of the earthquakes.”

‘I thought, “I’m not going out without make-up in case there are cameras! I’m ready!”

Even though she sleeps in full makeup, Dolly admits that she makes sure to cleanse her face properly in the morning before applying another coat.

She added: ‘It doesn’t matter when you clean your face, as long as you clean it once a day. After I wake up, I do all the little rituals, and then I start over and go out every day and look good all day.”

“This is also true at home in Tennessee. I don’t want to sleep with Carl like a witch.’

Recalling a two-week family trip to Hawaii, Jada said, “I remember one night I tried my hardest to wake up before everyone else so I could see her without makeup, but that didn’t happen” ( Jada in the photo with Dolly)

Saying, ‘I’ve never seen her without glamor in my life – there’s only been a handful who have. But from what I’ve heard, you’d still know it’s her. She is naturally beautiful’ (Dolly pictured in 2023)

Jada, who will perform at Glastonbury herself this year and also recently appeared on reality show Claim To Fame, added: ‘[Dolly] jokes about all the unnatural things and all the nips and tucks, but when you see pictures of her as a teenager, she’s the bomb. She is beautiful – she has always been beautiful, inside and out.”

Carl Thomas Dean and Dolly married in 1966 in a small ceremony after meeting two years earlier.

It was also reported that the singer had been secretly working on creating a ‘major new album’ that would be released later this year.

The project, reportedly titled Dolly Parton: Smokey Mountain DNA, will be the country legend’s 50th album.

Cousin Jada confirmed the details The sun as she talked about how her aunt was inspired by her heritage and collaborated with more than twenty of their family members on the album.

‘It’s an album that documents her entire life. It’s been a huge undertaking that involves the whole family,” Star, 44, revealed. “It’s an album she produced with over 20 family members with over 30 songs. She sings along with us on every song.’

It was also reported that the singer had been secretly working on creating a ‘major new album’ to be released later this year (2015 photo).

She continued, “The album features songs written about her childhood, her mother and father, uncles and aunts, siblings, all the way to her nieces and nephews.”

“We can all share interpretations of her songs or write our own songs for them. It has been a very crazy project,” Star said.

The reality star noted that she has written a song called The Orchard on the upcoming album, which she said is “all about our family tree and what we share with the world.”

However, Dolly’s goddaughter, Miley Cyrus, is not on the record.

Jada added that the “album will be released alongside the docu-series” about Dolly’s Welsh heritage, which was announced earlier this month.