Autobiography 1976: "Coal Miner's Daughter", which was the basis for the film Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)

Mother of actresses Patsy Lynn and Peggy Lynn.

Elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1988.

Measurements: 37-25-36 (according to her dresser), (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)

One of 5 recipients of the 2003 Kennedy Center Honors; other recipients were James Brown, Carol Burnett, Mike Nichols and Itzhak Perlman.

Ranked #65 on VH1's Greatest Women of Rock N Roll

Married Oliver Lynn at the age of 15. Four of their six children were born by the time Loretta was 18. She became a first-time grandmother at the age of 29.

Related to singer Patty Loveless.

She is the sister of Crystal Gayle.

Supported George W. Bush during the 2000 presidential election.

Husband, Mooney's nickname was "Dolittle" ("Do").

Son, Jack, drowned in 1984.

Loretta's husband was born Oliver Lynn but went by the nicknames Doolittle or Doo and Mooney (because he use to run moonshine in KY).

Was named after screen legend Loretta Young.

She was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1986.

She was the first country star to appear on the cover of Newsweek Magazine in 1973.

Was the first woman to win the Country Music Association's Entertainer of the Year trophy in 1972.

Has Native American Cherokee ancestry.

Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, Volume 155, pages 284-289. Farmington Hills, Michigan, 2007.

Personal Quotes

"When I was 14, I lived like a 35 year-old, and when I was 35, I lived like a 14 year-old."