Since her career began in the early 1960s, Dolly Parton has built her reputation on misconceptions about pretty, petite, buxom blondes. But in 1976, Dolly Parton couldn’t help but respond to particularly nasty tabloid gossip that had begun circulating about her and her loved ones. Dolly Parton released an uncharacteristically scathing track called “Shattered Image” on her seventeenth studio album, All I Can Do. Dolly Parton Can Tolerate the Tabloids, but She Has BoundariesPlay videoDespite her larger-than-life personality, Dolly Parton has done an exceptional job of keeping her private and public lives separate. In her 2020 book, Songteller, Parton wrote (via SongFacts), “There are a lot of stories about me in the tabloids.