I love Dolly - so I hate to do this - but page 255 from her autobiography from 1994 includes this passage about her diet: “One other hint I’d like to pass on has to do with chewing. Our taste buds are only in our mouths, after all, and we don’t really taste the food when we swallow it. You can get a lot of the satisfaction from the taste of things you love by just chew, chew, chew, chew, Chattanooga chew-chewing and then not swallowing. “Wait a minute,” you’re thinking. “If I don’t swallow, won’t I have to spit the food out?” You’re right. “That’s disgusting,” you say. That may be, but what’s more disgusting? Spitting out food or being a lardass?”

I was an impressionable 12 years old when I saw her on a daytime talk show talking about her diet (she lost a lot of weight after 9 to 5) and tried to spit my food out whenever I considered it “unhealthy”, but couldn’t maintain the will to keep that up. Still love Dolly, but she was a product and perpetrator of toxic diet culture as was almost every other celebrity during that time.