Dolly
Pa to
a d
Ca l
Dea
we e
ma ied
f om
1966
to
2025
u til
his
demise,
but
eve
had
a
child.
I
he
memoi
‘Dolly:
My
Life
a d
Othe
U fi ished
Busi ess,’
she
spoke
about
how
she
loves
child e
but
eve
wa ted
he
ow .
“Ca l
a d
I
had
eve
eally
wa ted
to
have
kids,”
she
w ote,
befo e
addi g
how
she
lied
to
avoid
the
guilt
f om
judgme ts,
“People
had
ofte
asked
me
about
havi g
child e ,
a d
I
always
felt
guilty
a d
selfish
if
I
said
I
did ’t
wa t
them.
So
sometimes
I
would
just
say
I
could ’t
have
them,
a d
that
lie
made
me
feel
eve
mo e
guilty.”
Du i g
a
2020
i te view
with
Op ah
Wi f ey,
she
dedicated
a
sig ifica t
po tio
of
he
success
to
he
decisio
ot
to
have
a
child.
“Si ce
I
had
o
kids
a d
my
husba d
was
p etty
i depe de t,
I
had
f eedom.
So
I
thi k
a
big
pa t
of
my
whole
success
is
the
fact
that
I
was
f ee
to
wo k,”
she
exp essed.