Megan Moroney Perfectly Recreates Dolly Parton’s 1978 ‘Playboy’ Cover For Halloween
“What would Dolly Parton do,” Moroney questioned.
Megan Moroney; Photo via Instagram, Dolly Parton Photo Courtesy Dolly Parton, Playboy
Megan Moroney turned heads this Halloween with her spot-on recreation of Dolly Parton’s iconic 1978 Playboy cover.
Moroney fully committed to the look, rocking the classic strapless corset teddy, bunny ears, bowtie, and feathered heels. She even included the same slightly creepy Easter Bunny prop seen in Dolly’s original shoot. To top it off, Moroney added a vintage-style filter to her photos, giving them an authentic old-school vibe straight out of the late ’70s.
Moroney’s costume quickly set the internet abuzz, and even caught the attention of a few of her country music friends.
Kenny Chesney joked, “We could have gone as Kenny and Dolly. Haha,” while Logan Crosby commented, “u icon u.”
The post racked up hundreds of thousands of likes, with fans calling the look “iconic.”
Dolly Parton’s original Playboy cover debuted in October 1978, exactly 47 years ago. She was the first country artist to appear on the magazine’s cover, and she made sure her shoot followed her own rules, with no nudity involved.
“I have been asked, back in the day, but that was so totally not me. I would never do that… But that was a good article they ran in there, and it was just a fun thing to do,” Parton previously shared of the cover. “That was just another way I was trying to market myself, at that time, to kinda get in the mainstream…”
In the summer of 2021, Parton famously recreated the look at 75 years old to surprise her husband, Carl Dean, for his birthday.
“You’re probably wondering why I’m dressed like this. Well, it’s for my husband’s birthday,” she began, while sporting bunny ears, a black strapless top, black gloves and a pink and white bowtie. “Remember some time back I said I was gonna pose on Playboy magazine when I’m 75? Well, I’m 75 and they don’t have a magazine anymore, but my husband always loved the original cover of Playboy.”
“I was trying to think of something to do to make him happy,” Parton added. “He still thinks I’m a hot chick after 57 years and I’m not gonna try to talk him out of that.”
In true Dolly Parton fashion, she said her new Playboy cover featured “the new Dolly” and joked that on the original, she was “kind of a little butterball.”
“Well, I’m string cheese now. But he’ll probably be thinking I’m cream cheese, I hope,” she said.
Megan Moroney’s Halloween 2025 look proved that some looks never go out of style!
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