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Adele’s latest social media post has

spawned a wide-ranging debate about

beauty standards and body positivity.


The Instagram photo featured a thank-you

to her fans and a message of support for

essential workers “risking their lives” .

It was Adele’s appearance in the image, however, that drew a large response online.

Countless fans commented that the “Hello” singer looked “stunning” and “beautiful”.

But while the responses to Adele’s appearance were largely positive, several social media users found the reactions problematic.

Others argued that the focus on

Adele’s weight also ignored her

numerous achievements as an artist



Adele has always loved the skin she is in.
When she first burst on the scene with her debut album "19" in 2008, the British singer was knocked for being plus sized.
Then she lost weight, but apparently not enough to suit some people.
In 2012, famed fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld apologized after reportedly calling the Grammy winner "a little too fat."



Adele shot back.
"I've never wanted to look like models on the cover of magazines," the then 23-year-old told People. "I represent the majority of women and I'm very proud of that."
Around the same time, she discussed body image with CNN's Anderson Cooper during a "60 Minutes" interview and said she's never felt pressure to look a certain way.
"I've never seen magazine covers and seen music videos and been like, I want to look like that if I want to be a success," she said.
In the years since, Adele has climbed to even greater heights as an artist. She's also become a mother, gotten married and divorced.
In an Instagram post Wednesday in celebration of her birthday, Adele, now 32, appears thinner than she ever has since she became famous.
We as a society love a before and after when it comes to our stars. Every celebrity transformation, physical or otherwise, often leads to our public assessment of whether it's good or bad. But is praising Adele's current appearance somehow criticizing how she looked before? Or are we simply acknowledging the transformation?


Not that thinner Adele hasn't been criticized.
Adele's latest photo caused plenty of buzz by some on social media, where people had already been weighing in on her apparent weight loss back in January.
That's when TMZ published a piece headlined "ADELE NOW FANS SAY SHE'S GETTING TOO THIN ...Can't Please Everybody."
Commentary over Adele looking svelte came after photos were published of her on the beach in the British territory of Anguilla.
Chalk one up for you can't win for losing.
With celebrities, it seems many feel entitled to comment more freely about them because we buy their music, or watch their movies. We know them but we don't know them, so what's the harm in sharing opinions about them?
But Adele's body is her own. How she chooses to look is also her own business and not a reflection of her artistry, remarkable talent or professional accomplishments. She's sold millions of albums, had four No. 1 Billboard hits, won 15 Grammys and sold out countless stadiums -- all while being various sizes.
Yes, Adele has lost weight. But up or down on the scale, she remains a beautiful woman who creates beautiful art.

"There's bigger issues going on in the world than how I feel about myself and stuff like that," Adele said about her body image in a 2015 interview.
Amen, Adele. Amen.
 
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Fat or thin, she is still annoying and her fifteen minutes have passed.
 

First there were the compliments, which included fire emojis and variations of “Wow, you look great.” Then came the criticism of the compliments, which included “Adele has always been beautiful,” “Let’s not applaud weight loss like it’s a big achievement, thereby perpetuating the notion that all women should be thin” and, at times, a very clear subtext of “Et tu, Adele?”


And all of this was followed by the criticism of the criticism and a lot of conversation about the female body.

As if the female body is an aggregate. As if anyone really believes that someone told Adele, “If you don’t drop 20 pounds, your career is over.” Adele is a singer-songwriter superstar whose words speak to us in a voice that haunts us. What her body looks like has nothing to do with it in any way. It certainly has nothing to do with us in any way.

What’s not cool is judging women by any socio-political image — historic or contemporary, traditional or reactionary — that is not applied, in the same measure and with the same meaning, to men. Because that is the definition of sexism, whether you’re “expressing concern” for your favorite star’s welfare or the state of the body politic.
While cutting through the strangling net of one ideal — polished perfection — we’ve thrown ourselves into another: standard-busting rebel. But it’s the power of the ideal that’s the problem. It doesn’t matter what the expectations are so much as how much it upsets us when women do not conform to them.

If you demand that someone conform to your idea of nonconformity, you’re kind of missing the point.

President Trump thinks journalists are angry? That’s his right, but he can’t have a different (and in this case absurd) standard for women. You think society and the entertainment industry pressure women to be thin? You bet they do — but that doesn’t mean women can’t also make independent choices about their own bodies for their own reasons. No one should feel pressure to be any size, large or small.
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Something very wrong is happening with Adele Adkins. Whoever is with her or in her life must be aware that she’s sent out a cry for help, perhaps. Her face in a photo posted to Instagram is terrifyingly thin. One can only hope it’s some kind of manipulation of the picture. But I don’t think so. Adele either has had some kind of bariatric procedure that’s gone wrong or she is suffering from bulimia. This is an emergency. This hugely talented, popular singer is going through something and needs an intervention. Adele obviously was a heavy set girl, and last year she showed off a huge weight loss. But this picture today — despite her happy smile — seems to indicate something else. Frankly, it reminds me of Whitney Houston when she appeared on Michael Jackson’s 30th anniversary show. And that was also an emergency.
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IT IS NECESSARY FOR US TO SERIOUSLY ASSESS AND WRESTLE WITH WHY WE SEE ADELE’S WEIGHT LOSS AS INHERENTLY GOOD.
TW/CW: This article discusses weight change, dieting, eating disorders, and fatphobia.

Adele “lost” (more) weight. I say “more” because when she revealed herself for the first time in a long time for Christmas, many people celebrated for days about how much weight she’d “lost.” Then people celebrated again at the beginning of February when photos and videos surfaced of her at Laura Dockrill’s wedding, wherein she announced that she would have an album coming in September of this year.

Now again, at around 12:30 AM on Wednesday, she posted a picture on Instagram thanking friends, fans, and loved ones for all the birthday wishes. That brought a lot of people a lot of joy and happiness. Not the celebratory post about her birthday, but the fact that she had “lost” even more weight. When I saw her latest Instagram post, however, the first thing I said to myself—and on Twitter—is “I hope she’s okay.” Because when I see someone lose a drastic amount of weight, especially while in the midst of experiencing what has become a very public trauma, I immediately think about the impact the trauma is likely having on their body.

Adele hired a trainer back in 2016 and has reportedly been working out ever since. However, it wasn’t until a post she made in October 2019 that people began to pay more attention to this “loss” of weight that seemed to happen almost overnight. That post revealed no more than her face, but it was clear that she had become thinner than she once was. But in January of this year, one of Adele’s trainers revealed the diet Adele was on that was helping her “lose” so much weight. The diet is called the “Sirtfood diet.” This is a two-phase diet that lasts for three weeks. The creators claim that it turns on a “skinny-gene,” that causes rapid weight “loss,” and prevents diseases. The first phase is three days long. For those three days, you are only allowed to intake 1,000 calories. This means that for three days you consume three green juices a day and only one meal “packed with sirtfoods.” For the following four days, two green juices and two sirtfood-packed meals. For the two weeks after that, you eat three meals (a day) and one green juice. Then the diet is complete. By then, you’re expected to have “lost” a lot of weight, and the rest is dependent on the upkeep of your diet following.

According to the experts, however, the Sirtfood diet is a fad. Just as statistics show for dieting in general, this diet either does not work or is a short-lived success. However, this piece is not about the failings and oppressiveness of diet culture; I’ve already written that. Instead, this is about my deep concern for how we engage (drastic) weight “loss.” I continue to place “loss,” “lose,” and “lost” in quotations because, not only am I certain that this new Adele isn’t a product of surgery, but you don’t “lose” weight. It is not lost. Unless the reason for why you’ve “lost” weight is an illness, weight “loss” is usually intentional. To describe it as something that is “lost,” or that is a “loss,” would be to suggest that it is dead; that it cannot be recovered; or that you had such a deep connection to it that you had an interest in finding it in the first place. None of which is usually ever true for intentional weight “loss.” Statistically, the weight almost always returns, and no one has the intent to “lose” something they value.


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So how is Adele to feel after witnessing all of this celebration around her changing body? And how is she to feel should she ever gain this weight back? Considering the fact that the anti-fat patriarchy under which we live teaches women that their bodies belong to men, even after they’ve left them, is Adele supposed to feel comforted in the idea that she made this choice to “lose” weight to spite or get “revenge” on the man she’s divorcing? More to the point, the celebration of her “new” body is deeply anti-fat and misogynistic.

While none of us know this for certain, it seems that Adele’s weight “loss” is intentional. She’s spoken about her desire to “lose” weight before, even going as far as saying she wanted to “lose” weight to see if the reason for her fame was her weight—a theory that makes very little sense with an experiment that makes even less sense—and later saying that it’s for her son’s sake.

Be that as it may, whether intentional or not, weight “loss” can be exacerbated by stress and trauma, and has been named as a resultof eating disorders. This is not an intention to diagnose Adele—I am no psychiatrist and no physician. Rather, this is to say that how we respond to weight and weight “loss” is determined entirely by how we are taught to view fatness. It’s necessary for us to seriously assess and wrestle with why we see weight “loss” as inherently good—so much so that we celebrate what is so clearly drastic weight “loss” even after knowing how much trauma a person has suffered prior to the weight “loss.”


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Said differently, we are only so quick to celebrate a person’s “lost” weight because we are taught that the weightiness of fat peoples’ bodies are inherently burdensome; cross-bearing; back-breaking; onerous. Not on fat people, but on the people who surround us. Therefore, there’s no regard for whether or not a person is well when they “lose” weight because our societal desire—our only desire—is to not have to concern ourselves with the Ugliness of fatness; it doesn’t matter how it’s misplaced or “lost.” For me, however, I choose to see fatness as valuable; as part of my wellness. So the celebration of “lost” weight feels more like a celebration of thievery; theft of a fat person’s ability to see themselves as someone who matters; theft of a person’s right to see their body as neutral rather than inherently bad; a breach of consent on how a person enters into a relationship with their fat body.

The only way to undo this is not to merely dive into who is and is not “losing” weight for “all the right reasons,” but rather to devalue weight “loss” entirely. Return to fat people the life you’ve earnestly and jubilantly stolen. Our fatness deserves to be ours to have, to hold, to value, to love. And for fat women, in particular, their weight is not a weapon of war and revenge for them to throw away after divorcing a man. There is no “glow” or “snatched waist” necessary for a fat woman to acquire to prove she is happy or better off without a man.
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I heard multiple times that formerly fat people hate fatsos the most of all. Looking at these reactions, it's not hard to see why. Shit's almost like a cult.
 
She looks good. Good for her. Just ignore the angry fat people, lady. Everyone else does.
 
Is Adele looking for a change in direction by keeping a male lover for once?

Good on Adele, but I'll bet good money that her music still blows massive chunks.

Lizzo just needs to fuck off tbqh.
 
Look, Adele had gastric sleeve or gastric bypass. Good for her. Her body, her choices. I am also pretty sure she paid for it privately, so she didn’t take up someone else’s treatment slot. This is honest to god something that doesn’t affect anyone else and isn’t any of their fucking business.

If she feels she needs the excess skin off, a face lift, a body lift, or breast reconstruction, good for her. Her body, her choices. Again, 100% she will pay for it privately, so no one’s business but hers.

I’m fucking over people thinking Adele’s body is a political statement. If you were actually body positive, you would support her whatever she chooses to do with it. She doesn’t evangelise, she barely even mentions it beyond a couple of references to working on her health. She is a single mother now and maybe that makes her feel differently about health risks, that’s pretty common. ETA: Sam Smith lost absolute shitloads of weight and no one mentions a fucking thing about it. Adele’s body is not a canvas for your political sloganeering.

I like her voice and I don‘t care what she does as long as she is happy with it. That giant hoop wreath in the birthday photo is the fucking bomb though, that shit is amazing.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
Legitimate question, when someone goes from deathfat to normal size, where does all the extra skin go?
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It actually stays, most people who lose large amounts of fat need some kind of minor cosmetic surgery to snip off and tuck the excess.
 
JambledUpWords said:
FA are known to unperson those that dare lose weight and keep it off. They see it as betrayal.
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And they're right for once. Hambeasts hadn't claimed her as a ham icon on their own, she'd volunteered herself:
"I've never wanted to look like models on the cover of magazines," the then 23-year-old told People. "I represent the majority of women and I'm very proud of that."
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"Most women are fat, so I'm average. Why'd you care?"
"And you're way too old. Fuck off, cat molester."
Why didn't she try these (badumtish) for size?
 
Why can't people understand the health risks of being overweight? You don't have to have a hateful "fuck you fatso!" mentality to, ya know, acknowledge an inconvenient thing called reality.

John Candy was as likable a fat person as you could hope to have and his weight tragically cost him his life.
 
TowinKarz said:
It actually stays, most people who lose large amounts of fat need some kind of minor cosmetic surgery to snip off and tuck the excess.
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I think the rate of weight loss has a lot to do with it as well. If you lose weight gradually and consistently, your skin will adapt better. Those awful ex-gunt stomache scrotums are often the result of extensive surgery, or crash course near-starvation dieting.
 
dinoman said:
Hey, good for her I say. Fuck anyone that's giving her shit over this. Losing weight is not easy.
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Yes it is.

Weight loss is easy as shit, just most people have fuck all for willpower and barely enough braincells to understand why they're so corpulent.

Walking a few extra miles in tandem with eating smaller healthier balanced portions is more than enough to get the ball rolling for most fatties and they have a hard time doing that!
 
Bagronkleton said:
Yes it is.

Weight loss is easy as shit, just most people have fuck all for willpower and barely enough braincells to understand why they're so corpulent.

Walking a few extra miles in tandem with eating smaller healthier balanced portions is more than enough to get the ball rolling for most fatties and they have a hard time doing that!
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Which is why it's notable when someone gets their shit together....

It's technically easy to cure alcoholism, just stop drinking, right?

Well, if it were that easy, we wouldn't smile on the inside when smoeone actually finally checks into AA and gets sober and stays that way...

I'm not saying she needs a parade for losing 5 pounds, but you cant say it's not impressive to lose THAT much.... I don't think it's very helpful to tell someone who finally fixed their life for the better that: "Pft, anyone could've done that".
 
TowinKarz said:
It actually stays, most people who lose large amounts of fat need some kind of minor cosmetic surgery to snip off and tuck the excess.
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From deathfat, though, it's not that minor. These people can have several square feet to remove.
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