Dolly Parton Thanked Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce for a $2 Million Donation to Her Imagination Library, Then Asked for Their Firstborn
“When you have your firstborn, can I have it? Because that is gonna be one special baby,” Dolly said in the video, after thanking the couple three times in a row.
Dolly Parton wants dibs on Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce‘s baby. “Now it’s evident that you two have made giving back a key part of your lives,” she says in a video posted to her Instagram on Friday. “So hey, when you have your firstborn, can I have it? Because that is gonna be one special baby!”
The video is a thank-you for the couple’s $2 million donation to her Imagination Library, the program Dolly founded in 1995 that mails one free book a month to enrolled kids from birth until they start school. It’s shipped more than 318 million books across the US, UK, Ireland, Canada, and Australia.
“Taylor and Travis, it’s Dolly,” she opens. “I was just told that you two are making a donation of $2 million dollars to my Imagination Library. Thank you, thank you, thank you! I’m blown away and overjoyed with that gratitude.” She closes by singing a snippet of “I Will Always Love You.”
The $2 million is one slice of a much bigger giving spree. Swift and Kelce announced $26 million in donations (13 x 2, Taylor’s lucky number doubled) across more than 20 organizations days before their wedding weekend, spread across food banks (City Harvest, LA Regional Food Bank, Food Bank for NYC), children’s hospitals (Children’s Mercy, MSK Kids, Hassenfeld), the ASPCA, Grammy in the Schools, and after-school programs, with recipients tied to Nashville, Kansas City, Cleveland, Reading, Los Angeles, New York, and Rhode Island.
The Imagination Library piece lands at a pointed moment. Missouri, which used to fully fund the program in the state, cut its budget from around $6 million to $2 million and froze new enrollments starting July 1. Similar squeezes have hit other states.
Travis Kelce liked Dolly’s post.
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