Dolly Parton is getting real about her inked up body.
The country music icon has spoken about her tattoos in the past, but persistent rumors have claimed she actually has full sleeves of tattoo, which she covers up with long-sleeved shirts.

In a chat with W Magazine, Dolly, 75, touched on her "little tattoos," of which she has "more than one."
"I have a few little tattoos here and there," she said. "Most of my tattoos came because I'm very fair and I have a tendency to scar when I get any kind of cut. I've had surgeries for different things, and if the scars didn't heal properly, I just gotta put tattoos to take the sting out."
While she didn't detail what exactly she's had inked on her body, the singer insisted she doesn't have "the real heavy, dark tattoos."
"Mine are all pastel," she said. "And I have more than one!"

Back in 2019, she spoke of her body art, telling "Good Morning America" she likes "decorating" her body.
"I got them to cover scars or things," she said of her tattoos. "If I have to get a scar for any reason, I never can kind of get rid of that purple look. So I thought, 'Well, I'm going to kind of decorate these with some flowers or little butterflies or whatever.'"
Back in 2014 she denied that longstanding rumor of her having full sleeves of tattoos.
"People said the other day that the reason you wear sleeves is that you have snake tattoos all over you, and I said, 'No, I don't,'" she told Today back in 2014.