"I had cleavage that would make Dolly Parton proud. But those things are really heavy and I'm pretty slight of frame, so I took them out. No one even noticed"
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The subtext is sharper: Doig is pointing at how much of screen femininity is engineering, and how little of it is actually noticed when you remove the supposed headline feature. “I’m pretty slight of frame” frames the decision as bodily autonomy and comfort, not morality. It’s not “I regretted it,” it’s “my body wasn’t built for the costume the culture wanted.”
That last beat, “No one even noticed,” is the quiet indictment. It suggests the surveillance of women’s bodies is both intense and oddly imprecise: people claim to care, industries insist it matters, yet the audience often can’t tell what they’re supposedly demanding. In a media environment that sells transformation as essential - more curves, more spectacle, more “wow” - Doig’s punchline exposes the banality underneath. The body was never the point; the idea of the body was.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Doig, Lexa. (2026, January 15). I had cleavage that would make Dolly Parton proud. But those things are really heavy and I'm pretty slight of frame, so I took them out. No one even noticed. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-had-cleavage-that-would-make-dolly-parton-proud-166199/
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Doig, Lexa. "I had cleavage that would make Dolly Parton proud. But those things are really heavy and I'm pretty slight of frame, so I took them out. No one even noticed." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-had-cleavage-that-would-make-dolly-parton-proud-166199/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I had cleavage that would make Dolly Parton proud. But those things are really heavy and I'm pretty slight of frame, so I took them out. No one even noticed." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-had-cleavage-that-would-make-dolly-parton-proud-166199/. Accessed 3 Feb. 2026.




