Is anyone looking forward to the Grammys? I might actually watch them this year (I’m 0 for ~~) just because I want to see some cutaways to Beyonce and Lady Gaga’s bitchfaces when Adele sweeps. Adele is going to sweep, right? Oh, wait. Sunday is Downton Abbey night. While I love Adele, I need mah Downton. Still, I will tune in to see Adele’s 60 Minutes interview with Anderson Cooper just before the Grammys. CBS has been releasing parts of the interview throughout the week, and it sounds really, really awesome. Adele doesn’t just have a great singing voice – she has a really sweet little accented speaking voice too. Here’s the video of her talking about her voice and how difficult it was for her after her throat surgery, and how much she loves to cuss.
And here’s video of Adele talking about body image and her image as a performer and singer. She says, in part, “I’ve never seen magazine covers or music videos and been like ‘I need to look like that to be a success.’ I don’t want to be some skinny mini with my tits out. I really don’t want to do it and I don’t want people confusing what it is that I’m about. I just stand there and sing. I don’t do stunts or anything. I’m just writing love songs. I’m not trying to be pop. I’m not trying to be jazz. I’m not trying to be anything. I’m just writing love songs and everyone loves a love song.” Oh, Adele. I love you, girl.
In this video, she talks about how excited she is to perform at the Grammys and how she will totally “sh-t herself”. That made Anderson giggle.
And here is THE BEST THING EVER. 60 Minutes just released this – Adele singing “Rolling In the Deep” acapella to Anderson. I wish there was a cutaway to his face as she sang to him. That’s the only thing that would make this video more amazing:
Photos courtesy of Q Magazine, WENN.
People should never talk publicly about their weight. Their words always come back to bite them in their future shrunken ass.
See Jennifer Hudson.
But I love me some Adele. Blindly. Much more grace than what we have been used to lately. I bet you she doesn’t sign legal documents with happy faces.
Yep. She might not want to be a skinny minny with her tits out, but I cannot believe she would not like to be a lower weight.
Good lord you act like she weights 500 lbs. She is beautiful. She looks normal to me. I agree with her. We’ve just had enough of the anorexic, bleach blond, auto-tuned bimbos. She is so refreshing and I love that she is just herself with a good voice. I hope she wins every single grammy that she is nominated for.
I agree with Team Elton on this all the way…well spoken Team Elton!!
I can’t believe that you believe everyone wants to be skinny. Look at her in those videos, she looks completely normal. Not all of us want to look like Belsen victims.
I think that she does probably consider it. I remember Sophie Dahl years back, she said similar things and then what happened? She ended up enlisting a personal chef and trainer and dropped all the weight.
I think Adele will eventually go this way as well. However I still think that she looks heavier because she is a) not tall and b) all film media stack on the weight.
I mean, we all look at Angelina and think ‘oh wow’, well not all of us, but in real life she’d be skeletal to look at and yet, in images, people are conditioned to think that she really looks healthy.
I’d say Adele is healthier than Angelina and similarly thin actresses and don’t see why she should buckle under, just because some old crone (Lagerfeld) made a comment. If Yves St Laurent was still alive, Karl Lagerfeld would be nothing.
In any case, I think that in real life, Adele looks just fine.
Good for her but in this world obsessed with body size never say never.
So true.
She is truly a gracious young lady and a true star to boot.
She will still be filling Arena’s long after the wannabe celebs and fashionistas have long faded from our memories.
I don’t know Hugo. You are forgetting her tremendous accounted for fear of the stage.
That fear could absolutely be a career breaker.
I LOVE HER ACCENT! Love her voice…i don’t care if she loses weight or gets bigger…she will always be Adele! Loveley gal…would love to hang out with her, she seems like a total riot to be around! 🙂
Every year or so it’s seems like a “real” singer makes it make big remember Norah Jones and then just kinda fall off… Sex will always sell unfortunately
Not so.
Adele has what all the other don’t have and thats talent.
The so called “Sexy” brigade of female artists have to distract us with their faces and bodies because their voices are so mediocre.
Adele is the exception, only talent endures.
Beyonce struts around like a whore on heat, what’s her excuse?? Mariah can at times dress almost as classy as a 10 dollar hooker, got a reason for that? Gaga maybe feel like she’s pushing her ‘art’ but spends 70 percent of her time pretty much naked. These examples may not be to everyone’s tastes but all are talented and vocally blessed people and look how they sell themselves. Even though their fan base are predominately women and gay men. Know why?? Because the industry is run by men who have a very clear and distinct idea on how they think a woman should be observed.
I think it’s “Skinny Minnie”, after the Bill Haley song. 😉
Thank you! It’s been killing me seeing every media outlet write “skinny mini” instead of “skinny Minnie”!
The Queen
I only wonder, if she doesn’t care about her weight, why she talks about it so much, all the time?
Probably because no one else will shut up about it.
My thought, exactly. Everyone feels the need to ask her how she feels not looking like everyone else. How rude.
Ditto
I second that!
I think she cares and tries to deflect from her obvious insecurity about her weight, by unleashing little mean (subtle) attacks at the smaller starlets.
Adele you’re the bomb, Your voice does something magical to me. But you and me both know you’re not as secure as you claim to be, otherwise it would be a non-issue. I’m not saying everyone needs to be skinny, but I’m definitely an advocate for healthy weight. Work off some of those pounds, not for your image really, but for your piece of mind and health (talking to adele btw lol)
I’d love to see a video where she is not just sitting throughout, or the camera does not only capturing her from the shoulders up. Instead of being defensive, she needs to transform this into something positive and healthy.
I completely agree with everything you said. She should lose a few pounds for her own health.
No one is expecting to see her like a skeleton with tits out. And to my knowledge, no one is holding a gun to her head when she is asked questions about her figure. She could very politely refuse to answer. She keeps saying, after all, that she’s all about the music. So why even acknowledge such shallow questions?
Also, again, what’s with all these weight extremes being thrown around? No one said anything about her having to be a skinny Minnie or whatever. She is all about the music, we get it, so can she please stop mentioning her weight or answering questions pertaining to it? Geeeez.
Love, love, love this woman! And if she DOESN’T sweep it will be the biggest upset in Grammy history…
Love her, love her confidence and her voice.
She’s amazing as she is herself…
my first thought was “Katy Perry”
Love her.
I heart Adele! She is my ultimate girl crush and the girl is the most talented we’ve seen in years! You go girl 🙂
I like Adele and no she doesn’t have to look ‘like that’ to be successful but when big girls say things like I don’t want to be a skinny minnie with my tits out it just sounds derogatory to the skinnys. I’ve heard it before from big girls and it’s an thought I’ve had once or twice when pondering my fat ass. It’s good to love yourself but it also sounds like an excuse not to be a healthy weight (which still includes the lower overweight category on the BMI).
But go Adele, hope she rocks the Grammys and takes the awards so we can hear her talk too! And yes please, lots of cutaways… is Kanye going to be there?
I don’t think she was taking a swipe at skinny girls, but the insistence by the music industry to have young female singers to be skinny AND busty and overly sexualized.
I think she’s just saying I don’t want to be about “that,” what other peers are selling like Rihanna and Katy where they rely almost solely on sex appeal. She’s saying she just wants to write about love songs.
1. BMI is bullshit
2. How do you know what her BMI is?
I think she’s an old school singer type, where singers wore lovely dresses and adornments but weren’t models either, ala Billie Holiday or Ella Fitzgerald. They were striking women, but their voices took centerstage. And I don’t know why people are INSISTING she do it any other way or that she wants it any other way. A lot of skinny folks in the industry are chin deep in tabacco, coke, and alcohol, let’s not make weight the sole factor of what good health looks like on a pop star.
Agreed. I see talent before looks. Admittedly, her face is gorgeous! Esp. in the Someone Like You video.
She will have to watch her weight. She’s young and very pretty and has a beautiful voice, but she is overweight and will just have to be careful to make sure she stays healthy. I’m sure she feels the pressure to be thinner in her field, but for her the focus should be health. She’s not a pop star who made it by looking sexy and having great dance moves and using auto tune, so she doesn’t have to be a “skinny mini” to be successful. But starting overweight at her young age, it will only get harder to keep weight off as she ages. If she was able to lose a few pounds by eating well and getting some exercise, I think she would be at a healthier weight. But she should want to do it for herself and her future, not because of what some anorexic fashion man says. This is coming from a physician who loves her music. Stay healthy Adele!
$20 says within two years she drops a significant amount of weight.
I’m sorry. I don’t buy it.
There is not a single overweight person I know – be it 10 lbs overweight or 100 lbs overweight – that I know who wouldn’t shed that weight in an instant if it was easy as a snap of the fingers.
If she could wake up tomorrow thin, she would.
The problem with most overweight people who refuse to attempt to lose weight by mindful eating and regular exercise they convince themselves that they’re going against the grain of society painted and conditioned by gender and weight bias and that they love themselves no matter what.
Well yes, the media is fucked up.
But you’re still not an appropriate weight so stop lying to yourselves and take control of your bodies.
Food is for energy. Its not for comfort and it should be for pleasure only sparingly. There is no other animal on this planet that eats itself so willingly into oblivion and that is the truth.
I’m sick of hearing her talk about her weight. I wish that she would shut up about it when asked those questions (“next question please, I’m here to talk about my music”) and I also wish that she would come clean with herself and make a decision to attain a healthier weight.
@FeverDream, I totally agree with you and I’d put in 20 bucks on your bet. That is what all the females in the spotlight say when they are fat. “I am happy with my curves, I don’t want to be thin!”. And then they lose the weight as soon as they can.
I also am sure that if there was a pill that you could take and be thin, Adele would take it, and every fat person would. No one likes being fat; it’s uncomfortable, it’s unhealthy and it’s just not ideal.
I wonder if Adele will go the Jennifer Hudson route and sign up with Weight Watchers or someone similar and lose all the weight.
Count me for that bet.
Her music is beautiful, her voice is amazing, but this whole talk of weight and not wanting to be a skinny whatever sounds to me like the lady doth protest too much.
Another thing that grates me is that she purposely chooses words like skinny and thin. Those tend to have negative connotations nowadays, what with every semi celebrity and upwards being under 115 pounds. But nowhere did I hear the words “more in shape”, “fitter”, “more toned”, or just “toned”,etc. I’m getting dizzy from the eyerolling.
I love Adele’s voice and music so much. But she sounds like a total bitch here.
She doesn’t want to be some “skinny mini with her tits hanging out?” STFU.
This world has gone to hell in a handbasket.
Fat people are revered, skinny as pencil people are revered and the people in the middle are ignored.
NO one is saying she has to be a size 2 and look like Kristen Chenowith and a bobblehead in a body that’s about to snap in half.
Hey Adele! You’re 23! What’s wrong with being a size 10? A 12? At her height, she’s be curvy and look REALLY nice.
The fact that she and many others think the minute someone mentions losing weight means you have to be under 110lbs is a damn shame.
It was freaking awful when everyone was ralling around that girl who played Precious. WTF is the big deal? She’s IS huge. Howard Stern is an ass but he’s right. She does look like a small planet. She’s really one out of breath moment from a stretcher and an ER.
Yet everyone is like she looks great.
Smh at the society I live in in which being over a size 0-2 is ignored and over a 15 is revered.
A size 6 girl people want to be skinner to a 0-2.
A size 8 girl isn’t relevant. A “Fat” girl over a 14 gets backed by everyone.
She doesn’t have to insult anyone to get her point across and she needs to act like the smart young woman people think she is and realize no one is saying she needs to be a model. Jennifer Hudson looks awful as skinny as she is. Her face isn’t meant for it and she’s not toned. She’s happy so bless her.
When she was losing and hit about a size 8 she was perfect. Normal woman size and healthy.
No one wants you tits hanging out Adele and no one wants you to be a skinny mini. No one is saying you have to be anorexic skinny.
Smh
Overweight people revered?
Hmm how to nicely say “you are cracked?”
Anyone out there overweight and ever in your life felt revered?
I have been overweight all my life and am struggling right now to lose and be healthy. I have had complete strangers say nasty comments to my face when I am out and about. No one revers a ‘fat person’ we are treated with contempt and reviled.
Yup….
I’m not talking about you but society in general. These celebs are making society go round.
What Hollywood and famous people say is fat and skinny is the norm.
A 6-8 girl is told to lose weight to be a 0-2 to get roles in Hollywood. Thus making the normal people out here in the world think 0-2 is perfect.
Then there’s the fat girls who everyone rallies around. Look at Melissa McCarthy. Everyone is all oh she’s great. She’s huge! She could stand to be a beautiful size 12. But no, she’s a 20 something and everyone loves her.
It’s one extreme or the other. If you’re super skinny you’re noticed. If you’re overweight and classified as fat you’re noticed. People in the middle don’t exist because they need to fall to one extreme or the other.
“Smh at the society I live in in which being over a size 0-2 is ignored and over a 15 is revered.”
Unless you are from Mauritania I don’t think so !!!!!
I am not of size but have friends who are and holy cow the way they get treated is flabbergasting .. reverence plays no part in it either !!!
Adele is awesome to state clearly that she is fine the way she is and does not need to devalue herself.
I think in the context of her post, it’s to be understood that those attitudes are mainly prevalent in the media, specifically celebrity oriented media. In real life, overweight and underweight people garner quite a bit of negative attention, to put it mildly.
However, in celebrity land it’s one extreme or the other and everyone is being thoroughly asskissed. For these people the possibility of an in-between seems like an alien concept. You’re fat and you decide to lose weight? Better not stop until you obtain that emaciated look and fight to keep it.
Kristiner, maybe she is fed up with being scrutinized.
Let’s see, there are thinner singers out there, the Rihanna’s and the Beyonce’s, shaking their punanis to get attention, singing -what are basically – crappy songs and they aren’t really scrutinised for their bodies, but their music is rubbish.
Then there is Adele, who is obviously talented, and she is scrutinised for her weight. WTF? I call bullshit on that.
Also, in case you weren’t aware, a few months ago, Lady GaGa’s ‘monsters’ (fan-idiots) took to Twitter to go on and on about Adele’s weight, basically mocking her.
So maybe Adele’s comment is a subtle reference to Gaga, who always has her boobs or some part of her genitals accentuated in film clips.
She makes a perfectly valid point, because if anyone has any idea about Karl Lagerfeld, they’d know that he uses super skinny celebrity representatives as ambassadors for Chanel and his comment about Adele was really uncalled for.
Anyway, I’m hoping Adele wins all the Grammys available and singers like Perry and GaGa explode with jealousy.
Maya, I think you hit the nail on the head with your post. It jumped into my mind, she’s talented, truly. However, what is the media/fan focus? Her weight. She should be angry, she’s sharing her talent with the world, and all they talk about is her weight? “Yes, she’s talented, BUT blah, blah, blah”…No, she’s talented, that’s as far as you get to go. She’s sharing her talent, not her body, oh but that’s not enough they want more!
I see this as outright jealousy. Other singers, pop stars whatever, have bought into the “package” deal where they give up their true selves, and become a puppet for the media machine. In so doing some have theoretically sold their souls in order to be famous, and become as wealthy as possible.
They’ve agreed to step into the package of “sex sells”, and this runs the gamut from truly talented singers to auto-tune Barbie Doll nightmares. There are other talented singers out there, but they’ve sold out.
It will be interesting to see whether Adele sticks to her guns on this issue. I for one am SICK of seeing lady-bits bouncing around on almost every pop star, while they are marketed to very young girls a la Katy Perry in her Smurf wigs, and sexually suggestive…everything!
She may be bigger than the average auto-tuned, half naked bimbos we’re exposed to of late but the truth is, she probably has their talents (if you can even call it that) combined…. And she makes more money than you’ll ever even dream of…yes, you there hating on her! You!
Adele, please STFU about your weight and about people who weigh less than you. Don’t be a petty b*tch.
Shame that she feels THAT insecure to make a comment about skinny people having their cleavage exposed. Shows where her mind is preoccupied. Let her stick to singing now…
A BIT harsh but i agree 100%
I don’t one person on the face of the planet who would enjoy being a fat ass. This is all a front and her defense mechanism but I’m sure she goes home @ night, looks in the mirroir and bawls
OMG I LOVE her! She’s so real, refreshing!
I really like Adele. I think she talks about her weight a lot because other people bring it up. I think she should start telling interviewers ahead of interviews that the subject is off limits. If she doesn’t, she’ll end up like Kate Winslet who seems to talk about nothing but weight. I don’t want weight to become her “thing.”
Good for Adele for being true to herself by eschewing the constant attempts by the music industry and media to make image count above everything else! She can sing while so many others can’t, and she’ll be able to look back at her career with pride when she’s older rather than embarrassment.
god, she’s so beautiful
She gets slammed for her weight constantly on blogs, so she finally talks about it and tries to make it a non issue and she’s still being slammed by some people in the comments here. SMH. People disgust me. If you think people revere overweight people over “normal” sized people, please tell me which utopian socitey you live in because it’s obviously not in the real world. If she’s happy being the way she is, so be it, it’s her life.
Yes, quite right. I’m sure the poster was referencing real life and not the ditzy celebrity world. Context, people, context.
Sade, Whitney Houston and Diana Ross were all ultra skinny, very talented songstresses who didn’t use their tits to make a career. And by the way curvier women use their tits too, not just skinny ones so stop with the extrapolation and dowright insult about skinny meaning trashy with tits out.
Tired of the new fashionable trend that is to insult and denigarte skinny women left and right like they are fair game and deserve it, by those who are not as skinny and use their own frustration towards their body shape.
I also find it weird that most of those women who denigrate skinnier women end up losing weight more the otherway around and wether you are in that industry or not. May think it reeks more of a jealousy towards skinnier women who are glamourized by the media than a real love for their chubier self.
Every woman comes in every shape. Skinny stars rarelly make those derogatory comments about curvier or fatter stars but for some reason the later don’t have the same courtesy towards their skinnier more petite peers and end up losing weight ultimately.
Hypocrit, jealous and unprofessional, that’s what it is !
I love her! And the fact that she drops into her song with no (apparent) prep is amazing.
Also, re: the weight issue, I suspect she doesn’t put limits on what she talks about except her dating life, which means if the reporters ask about her weight, she’ll respond. And I don’t think she was putting thin girls down, just the manufacturing of them and the perception that to be a successful singer you HAVE to look like that/do that type of video.
I hope she sings some non-heartbroken songs soon
oh for goodness sake, people, work on your reading comprehension skills. She’s not being mean to “skinny” people.
She’s saying she doesn’t want to do the norm in the music industry, which is nothing more than a pimp to nubile girls. The music industry insists on young women being sexier, skinnier, and bustier, you know its true. Rihanna and Katy are current paragons of this. Adele’s just saying she’s not trying to go that route, she wants to be a singer and a song writer.
She’s bagging on social and industry expectations of her as a young girl, not on other girls.
Very well said. Pretty much what I would say if I could put how I feel into words at this moment 🙂
Adele is not slamming skinny girls or really even skinny girls with their tits out. She is saying she doesn’t want to be that. She wants to be herself, write her kind of music and do what she does.
I admire her honesty. Yes, she probably would be thinner if she could snap her fingers but that doesn’t mean she isn’t happy the way she is. Nobody wants to be overweight! She probably just doesn’t want to have to work at it that hard. She has lost some weight to be healthier but I doubt its all she thinks about like, I’m sure, many of our current starlets. Adele probably would enjoy a beer and some nachos on occasion and not feel guilty about it!
That is how I try to live my life. I exercise quite often. I am active. I watch what I eat probably 75% of the time and the other 25% I don’t give a shit. I am slightly overweight but I’m happy and that’s what matters. I am healthy. I know I am. Would I like to be a size 6 instead of a 12? Sure! If it were as easy as snapping my fingers. But I wouldn’t likely keep it off because I don’t want to limit myself or enjoy life less by not doing and eating what I want.
I have nothing against the skinnies of the world and I’m sure Adele doesn’t either. She probably thinks they are slightly tacky for having their tits out but really — they are!
I like her honesty too. And like you, I don’t even think she’s saying she never wants to be thinner. she’s just saying she never felt that she needed to change herself to do what she does -which is to sing and write songs. she’s just saying she wasn’t trying to be a pop star, that pop music just seemed to embrace her despite the fact she isn’t a sexy pop star.
‘Sexy’ is subjective. And if she wasn’t being mean, why make that stupid generalization of a ‘skinny minny with her tits hanging out’? She should know that that’s just a media image – she does not know half of the women she’s talking (nor of what they wear behind closed doors) for her to say that.
Really, if this was all she was worried about, then she really needs to work out her damn priorities because, as much as I don’t listen to their music, Rihanna, Katy, hell even Lady Gaga and especially the music industry aren’t giving her opinion on weight for the time of day.
Sexy is not subjective when it comes to selling pop stars. It’s a pretty specific standard.
and why would she make that generalization about a skinny minnie with her tits out? Cause the interviewer asked point blank: do you ever feel pressure to look a certain way as a pop star? Pop stars are by definition thin and sexualized. She doesn’t feel the pressure to work within that definition because she’s saying that’s not what she does – she doesn’t dance or do stunts. she just stands there and doesn’t shock and just sings.
She mocks herself constantly, she’s quite self-deprecating and flippant. She’s not some humorless overweight girl who says mean things about skinny girls. She said she could look at katy perry’s tits all day. So, I’m not buying that she’s trying to mean girl here. she’s just saying she’s not trying to be something she’s not.
What a breath of fresh air!
I have all but stopped listening to music on the radio, cuz everything sounds the same….AUTOTUNED. Nowadays, its just autotune and flashy dance moves and costumes (*side eye to Madonna and others*) and it’s not just the girls the guys are just as guilty. There’s not much true talent out there anymore.
Adele has true talent, beautiful haunting vocals. If she doesn’t sweep the Grammys I cry foul!
Just because you are overweight does not mean that you aren’t healthy. This is really annoying to see people again and again make that assumption.
Some people are just genetically heavier than others. But they still have ideal blood pressure, eat fruits and vegetables, and *gasp* even take the stairs at the office.
Just like, some people are genetically thinner than others, but are still healthy.
I feel that we should just be glad that she is an inspiring role model to young women, as she is modest, honest, funny, and isn’t on drugs.
Plus she can sing f*cking awesome.
I still think it’s degrading to ask a woman about her weight and certainly nosy as well but I love her answers! That quote is fabulous! I totally agree with her there. I live in Las Vegas where it seems that everything is sold by what I call a “hooker”. It’s annoying as H#!l I love how Adele doesn’t apologize for who she is because she doesn’t have to. Her voice is incredible and her songs are moving. That acapella rendition made me tear up. I just love to sing along to her songs in my car. I don’t have one tenth of her voice but I can’t NOT sing along anyway. She is a true talent!
So it’s okay for fat people to make remarks on skinny people? Everyone has gone apeshit on Karl because of his comment (it wasn’t even an insult, come on!) on Adele while everyone knows her weight is unhealthy. But if Adele says ‘skinny mini with tits hanging out’ it’s all like ‘PREACH IT GIRL’. Oh, very well then.
This fat versus skinny discussion is getting so old now. Some people are fat, some people are thin. Leave each other be.
That’s exactly my point and why all this reeks of hypocricy.
Many tab, blogs go on on X or Y stars being less than 100 pounds and looking unhealthy and all we hear is people attacking them, using substances abuses, anorexy, there is never an excuse for them skinny women, disrespecting them with insults like sack of bones, skeletor or worse : NOT REAL women and yet someone like Gabourey Sidibe has had much few news saying she was FAT overweight not even a sack of grease (versus sack of bones), not even the Fat equivalent of skeletor, not even having her femalehood stripped from her cause she is still a perceived as a real woman no matter her excess weight, people saying if she is happy so leave her alone but don’t have the same respect for skinny women and last but not least find it ok, acceptable and totally a propos to insult skinny women with such derogatory comments or use them as a fair game to look down and strip from their women realness .
If Adele was a skinny woman and had said those same words just changing skinny to fat women with tits out, all hell would have broken loose and the same people who arer saying ‘you go girl’ would scream at how disrespecteful and offensive she is towards those REAL women, but oh well, skinny women are not real women so they are fair game, right ?
Hypocricy to the core !
“Adele while everyone knows her weight is unhealthy”. But we don’t know her weight is unhealthy-we don’t know what her bp or cholesterol is, is she hypertensive, etc. Weight can be an indicator of health (or lack thereof), but it isn’t the whole picture.
The fact that so many people have been writing/speaking/commenting on her weight in a way that never happens to a tubby man, shows how little value is placed on women’s talent verses their looks – just listen with your ears and forget the rest!
I’ve seen Adele, in concert, up close – she is, in absolutely no way, shape or form “fat”. She’s actually quite normal looking! No more than a 12 (US) or so. That could have been all the black, of course. But I remember looking at my friend Sarah and saying, “She’s not very big at all!” She is quite tall, though. That’s what struck me the most about her. Her height and her beauty. (She’s also very, very funny.)
There’s no need for Adele to be a skinny mini with her tits hanging out because she has a great voice, unlike Britney or Katy Perry. When you don’t have the talent Adele does you need to be skinny mini and sex it up because that’s all you really have to attract an audience. Christina Aguliera has a great voice, she’s not so skinny anymore but her sexy almost naked style is a turn off, I find it hard to pay attention to her singing when she looks like an almost naked mess on my tv screen.
I’m getting tired of all her weight talk. You’re singer, Adele, not a plus size model. You can choose not to answer these stupid, shallow questions especially as they have nothing to do with your craft. But if you absolutely must answer, than do it in a way that is not derogatory of thin women.
As a poster mentioned above (Anne), it’s nice that thin people can be dumped upon with no guilt or shame, but fat people are cheered on when criticizing the former. Nice double standard. By what I’ve garnered from all the posts on Adele’s weight, “fat” is now an insult and incredibly politically incorrect, but “skinny Minnie with tits hanging out” is just a figure of speech. What can I say, very nice.
do you think some 21 year old girl who’s bigger really wants to talk about her weight all the time? I don’t get that vibe from her at all. She seems a bit sensitive with all the fixation on her size, but she usually jokes it off about liking food and ciggies and drink too much. When people let her just talk about things OTHER than her weight, she just comes off like some normal 21 year old gal who is a little insecure but funny and entertaining. She’s not some girl with a chip on her shoulder for being plus size.
Yes! The Queen’s voice is back. I’m so, so happy.
Ok, to the weight. She’s not slamming skinny women. She’s said before that she loves to see Katy, Gaga and Beyonce walk around in skimpy clothes and do their thing. I think it’s just when you have to keep talking about it, you get kinda defensive and things can come out wrong. Either way, we are all a bit to sensitive.
Oh and as a plus size woman (size 16). I do not aspire to be thin and when I say I am happy at my size, I genuinely mean it. Not everyone is dying to be the “ideal” woman.
You never hear anyone pestering the shit out of Aretha Franklin about her weight. Talent is talent.
I love Adelle and think she’s great. Is this a case of “the lady doth protest too much” though? I feel like we’re going to be seeing skeletal pictures of her in 3 months.
No, it’s a case of everyone-doth-ask-too much. She has NEVER once brought her weight up. She just answers questions that are asked of her.
Lol let’s all hate on skinny bitches
That literally made me lol.
“I just stand there and sing. I don’t do stunts or anything.”
And how I love her for it! When you’re a true talent, that’s all you need to do.
Still, to be as young as she is and that heavy, isn’t healthy or normal. You don’t need to be her doctor to know that.
Have you seen her in concert? She’s not actually fat at all. She looks healthy and fine.
she is the mama cass who will make it because she is secure, and strong
Love Adele! Love Andy! What a combo!
Hope she wins everything! She is extremely talented and so natural! The other ones are overhyped, overproduced and simply average. BTW, I love Downton Abbey and if I miss it I watch it on the PBS website, they have all featured Season 2 episodes.
Yeah, right. *yawns*
Adele strikes me a deeply insecure person. It’s so fucking obvious that she cares about her weight and body image. She sounds extremely defensive every time she talks about the subject. This is not the behaviour of a girl who’s comfortable on her own skin, like she’s always trying to show.
What bothers me about Adele is the way she’s always trash talking other girls to validate herself. Remember the similar “I don’t rely on tits to get hits” thing?
It’s like she’s saying: OMG, I’m so much better than THOSE GIRLS. *eyerolls*
I don’t like this sort of attitude.
I’m not a fan of pop singers these days (I think most of them lack talent) but I find very low to slut-shame them because of their clothes, hair, plastic surgery, tan or overall sexy image. Blame the game and not the player. These women are just a small part of a big system.
And you know what? I think it’s just a matter of time before she sheds a big part of this weight, pretty much like all those other celebrity girls with the same “I love myself as I am” bullshit.
What you say !
She is the Kate Winslet of music.
Plus I am sorry, apart from late Aaliyah and late Amii Winhouse there are no skinny girls her generation in the game…and those two didnt have tits hanging out.
What I see is athletically sporty built kinda slim gals. From Beyonce to Britney to Gaga to Niki to Rihanna…those are not skinny women. They are slim (some thanks to extreme diet and major exercisse) and athletically built like sporty women.
I alsdo find kinda ironic all those posts about women applauding women embracing their chubby self as they denigrate the skinny ones when the one that is considered through a poll as the best body in the US, Jen Aniston was as chubby as Adele and is also keeping her weight artificially through diet and exercises. Something she is always applauded for !
So from one point, the same people who say : hooray for embracing your chubby self and applauding them for looking down on skinny women are the same whose favourite body is the one that belongs to a former chubby gal who diets constantly and execrise extensively just to approack the…skinnier type.
Skinny women get bashed too, including through tabs and media, skinny stars get bullied too and yet you never hear them blaming anyone or looking down on chubbier/fat ones or getting…fatter to please anyone. They are secure enough in their skinny self and don’t need to insult any other type of body shape to get their frustration out of their system for not looking like the neighbour. They embrace their type inspite of all the nastiness thrown at their shape too….
First of all, I LOVE Downton Abbey!!!
Secondly, and more importantly, Karl Lagerfeld is a creepy, ugly asswipe. Adele is beautiful, but that’s not even the point. She is a singer. Girlfriend has talent that has nada to do with her looks. His comments were pointless. What’s next? Are we going to say, “Adele is a great singer, but she isn’t good at calculus.” That’s how much his ignorant comments have to do with her profession.
Over and out.
Haha…I need my Downton, so I’ll pass on the Grammys too.
It’s funny, but until about two months ago I had never even heard of Adele. While on vacation in Europe, Adele was the only thing playing on the radio. When I got home I downloaded her album and it’s been on autoplay ever sice. It’s like she just came out to me…lol.
After watching the clips of this interview she reminds me a lot of Jill Scott. Both of them sing very heartfelt songs and they have beautiful voices.
I’m totally digging the return of the love song!
god, what a voice! She blows Christina Aguilera out of the water.
Tbh I think being overweight is as bad as being anorexic. If your eating is so out of control that it causes u to be overweight, then that’s an eating disorder. Being overweight probably does more damage to ur body than being a bit underweight does
There are diagnostic criteria for what is and is not an eating disorder and what you just said is not it.
Good for her! I love this woman…such a MAJOR talent…and not buying into the whole Hollywood image crap. How refreshing!
Why can GaGa be ‘herself’ (as her lame song Born This Way confirms) and Rihanna be ‘herself’, and the list goes on, but Adele cannot be herself?
Why does she have to feel as though she has to comment about her weight or respond to morons (Skeletor Karl)?
Honestly, the fashion world sickens me. It is filled with some of the ugliest people at the top, who are as ugly on the inside as they are on the outside, trying to control women and make them unhappy.
The more I think about this issue the more it bothers me….
If someone said (hypothetically) that Karl Lagerfeld was ‘too gay’, there would be a public furore…wouldn’t there?
But it’s quite okay for this butt wipe to say that Adele is too fat.
Why is it okay to essentially judge a person physically in this manner?
Have overweight people become the new social scapegoats now?
Racism and homophobia have given way to sizeism. Well, this type of discrimination and public humiliation is just as humiliating as racism and homophobia.
Why can GaGa be ‘herself’ (as her lame song Born This Way confirms) and Rihanna be ‘herself’, and the list goes on, but Adele cannot be herself?
Why does she have to feel as though she has to comment about her weight or respond to morons (Skeletor Karl)?
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She can and has the right to be herself WITHOUT PUTTING DOWN other body shape in the process just like the ladies you mention are themselves without putting down ladies who are not as slim.
Wether you are super skinny, skinny, slim, athletically built, chubby, fat, overweight, obese, ect, you are as worth as any other type, you deserve the same respect and can be yourself WITHOUT FEELING THE URGE TO PUT DOWN, disrespecting, looking down other types calling them skeletor, sack of bones, Michelin tires, ect.
In that regard she is no better than Karl and her being talented in her industry, just like he is in his doesn’t give her pass and make her above that basic courtesy of respecting other physiques. She is tooting her own horns by belitelling other women not because they have less talent but because of their boddy shape(???) She doesn’t make reference to their skimpy clothes, their lack of vocal talent, their lack of good music and lyrics, she degrade their physique !
HOW IS THAT DIFFERENT ?.
She doesn’t need to put down skinny women to make her point across. She doesn’t need to brag about her sense of superiority and self entitlment because she accept her body type. The others too accept their body type without ever making any reference to the less skinny than them.
THAT’s THE WHOLE POINT !
I suppose it depends on your perspective. Doesn’t everything? I didn’t take it as Adele picking on the skinny girls. I heard it as someone who is most likely frustrated about being asked incessantly about her weight. What does it have to do with her talent? Nothing. Imagine being bugged about it over & over again. And let’s face it – like Maya said, overweight people are about the only group left that it’s okay to pick on. In our world, skinny = good. Anyone who isn’t skinny = bad.
i think i have outgrown these celeb sites, i’ve read everything on this post and the one on a.j. and this is sad. you call bitch and complain, they said this, they said that. they did, on tv were everyone could see them. people on this post just sit hunched over your lap tops, never showing what you look like, never exposing yourselves to the world. hidden and bitching, i wonder if you’d be doing this if people could see you and hold you accountable for your words.
So one thing why don’t men ever get asked about their weight. EVER?
Her first picture (her face) is soooo photoshoped. She is FAT and if she doesn’t care about it then good for her, but commmooonnnn don’t try to hid something soooo obvious
I adore Adele, and I hope she cleans up at the awards. But I think Whitney’s death is going to over shadow the whole thing. I don’t think we’ll remember who won what.
you know she isn’t huge nor is she morbidly obese but the world has gotten so accustomed to the 000 lollipop brigade that is most of Hollywood that anyone who isn’t a 0-000 look ginormous in comparison. Her weight really should be a non issue
i think Adele is right because she can be who ever she wants to be and no one else can say something like that but adele can and she isnt afraid
although talking about other celebs like that isnt the best way because no one can tell what will happen in the future
hope you agree:)
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