Adele talks about body shame after weight loss: “It hurt me”

Adele spoke about the body shame she faced after her reported weight loss of 45 kilograms.

The British singer is expected to return with new music next week. As she prepares for the release of Easy on me next friday she spoke to British Vogue in a candid conversation about her life when she was largely out of public sight for the past five years.

“I kind of have to prepare myself to be famous again, which I don’t really like to be,” she said. Vogue‘s Giles Hattersley, before the conversation turned to her weight loss, which she said “took place over a two-year period.”

“People are shocked because I didn’t share my ‘trip’,” the singer said. “They’re used to people documenting everything on Instagram, and most people in my position would get a big deal with a diet brand. I couldn’t. [care less]. I did it for myself and for no one else. So why would I ever share it? I don’t find it fascinating. It’s my body. “

Adele explained that she started working for her anxiety, saying she became addicted to it because it was time without her phone and that she “would feel better”.

“It was never about losing weight; it was always about getting strong and giving myself so much time each day without my phone. I got quite addicted to it. I work out two or three times a day. day, ”she said. “I needed to get addicted to something to get back in shape.”

Breaking down her vigorous workout schedule, she said, “So I do my weights in the morning, then I walk normally or box in the afternoon, then I go do my cardio at night. I was basically unemployed when I was doing And I do it with coaches. “

Realizing that so many hours in the gym are not achievable for the masses, she said, “It is not doable for a lot of people.”

Speaking of the public’s ‘ownership’ over her body throughout her career, she said, “People have been talking about my body for 12 years. They were talking about it before I lost weight. But yeah, whatever, I I do not care .

“You don’t have to be overweight to be positive, you can be any shape or size.”

The mother-of-one has opened up about her diet with Hattersley and the fake stories of people claiming to have coached or guided her on her fitness journey, following her split and divorce from ex-husband Simon Konecki, an executive charitable.

“You know a hundred percent of the stories written about me were absolutely wrong. People that came out were like, ‘I trained her,’ I’ve never met her in my life. It’s disgusting. I can’t get over it. A Pilates lady that I have never met in my life! And I have not dieted, “Adele said. “It’s not done. No intermittent fasting. Nothing. On the contrary, I eat more than before because I train so hard.

“And also, everything like ‘Gets Revenge Body’… Oh my god,” she said. “It’s ridiculous. I think it’s what people like to paint a divorced woman as being out of control, like ‘Oh, those must be crackers’ … Because what a wife without a husband? ” A Hattersley statement said she punctuated “the most amazing instinctive haircut”.

Update: October 9, 2021, 9:15 a.m.