It’s clearly been a great month for Adele, what with six Grammy wins and still-amazing album sales. Now her star is about to get a little (OK, a lot) brighter with a Vogue cover and photo spread she scored this month. Check out the entire set of shots after the cut!
Adele discusses walking the red carpet, music and even sex (“[I] always want to have sex. Well, most girls don’t!”) in the accompanying article. You can read the entire piece online. [via Fashionista]
I will say that Adele looks absolutely gorgeous in this shoot. But it also feels as if Vogue is trying to hide a fact that everybody knows: Adele has curves, and she’s unashamed of them! Yet the editors still tried to trick readers by thinning her out with lots of convenient angles, corsets and face shots. Just compare these two photos:
I see what you did there, Vogue! “We have to get some shots of her face-on, but that’s not usually thinning! I know; let’s have her smoosh in any fat there.” I’m completely aware that magazines alter photos to make them more glamorous. But why bother hiding the true figure of a woman we all know is voluptuous?
What do you think of the photo spread?







guest
Didn’t expect much else from Vogue. They’re always Photoshop heavy.
guest
She’s so pretty how she is! She just looks strange in these pictures.
guest
hmmmmm kind of pisses me off…. Don’t you know? We can’t allow young girls to see curves, they might see themselves as normal. -sarcasm-
guest
Those pictures look nothing like Adele. It’s sad, because I believe she has said before, “I don’t want to be on the cover of Vogue. I want to be on the cover or Rolling Stone… My goal is never to be skinny.”
sunflower / 251 posts
I don’t think they really look like her. They sure do concentrate on her boobs.
guest
And Karl Lagerfeld can kiss her butt in Macy’s window…she looks smashing.
Unlike the Prince of the Undead….
sunflower / 382 posts
On a positive note, I liked how they focused on her exquisite and breathtakingly beautiful face.
It would have been better if her curves were celebrated, but come on, it’s Vogue. So oh well.
rose / 937 posts
Imo, Adele doesn’t have curves just because she’s large. She has excess weight. Until she gets to a weight that her doctors would consider healthy for her lifestyle and height I cannot actually say with any certainty what her underlying bone structure is and how that affects her shape. She may naturally have narrow hips for instance and perhaps is just holding quite a bit of weight in the area that makes her look less rectangular than she’d be if she were at a healthier weight.
So basically, it doesn’t matter what your weight is, you can still be considered curvy if you are slimmer and you can be considered to lack curves if you are heavy. I’ve seen girls who looked like they had a curvy bone structure and once they got to a healthier frame you could see the curvy shape quite clearly.
guest
She’s beautiful, and didn’t need photoshopping. My face has a similar shape to hers, and I’d be kinda ticked if someone tried to photoshop it skinnier. It’s not who I am or what I look like. And like her, I’m happy with the way I look, and everyone ELSE should be happy with themselves too. I think photoshopping her just gives off the wrong vibes about accepting her looks.
orchid / 211 posts
Judging by at least 2 (awesome) cleavage shots, I don’t think we can say that vogue is hiding her curves. ”Curves” is not a polite synonym for excessive weight. They are two separate things. If you mean to say they are trying to make her seem slimmer in these pictures, then just say it instead of trying to be PC to the point where what you’re saying is just false.
That being said, these pics don’t really look like her. Vogue always photoshops the hell out of people, which is a shame since she’s such a natural beaut.
guest
Why does she have to be thinned out?
she’s beautiful just as she is.
guest
I like the second last one. The one with her hands on her face doesn’t even look like her, but a morphed Angelina Jolie..Angelina is gorgeous too but that pic is just kind of weird. I suppose it’s a ‘step’ that vogue featured someone more than 40 pounds anyway? I am always conflicted on these issues, its best to say nothing lol.
guest
“I don’t want to be some skinny mini with my tits out”, said Adèle. http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/adele-i-dont-want-to-be-some-skinny-mini-with-my-tits-out-201292
Skinny: check. Tits out: check.
dahlia / 2942 posts
Her cleavage looks like a butt crack.
sunflower / 437 posts
Nope, sorry, still don’t like her.
They try to make her look skinnier because it’s a fashion magazine. Have you ever seen a chubby mannequin? No? That’s what I thought.
guest
Holy JEEZ Adele is so damn hot. In real life or in the magazine spread….that woman is smokin. Curves are sexy.
guest
@erotyka@xanga - Glad I’m not the only one who just finds her pretty “meh” in the looks department. As for her voice – Well, she’s got some great pipes, but her music makes me yawn. :/
sunflower / 437 posts
@blackspiders@xanga - I don’t really like her voice. I don’t really like how she looks. I just would like it very much if she would go away, haha.
sunflower / 321 posts
Lol Anna Wintour wants everyone to be skinny. It’s like her religion or something.
guest
She looks more like Lana Del Ray than herself. Shame. :/
guest
She’s actually lost quite a bit of weight in the last year. If you look at photos of her from last year’s Brits (Feb 14th 2010) and photos of her now, you can notice a big difference.
guest
there’s no such things as beauty anymore in magazines. stupid vogue, she was great the way she was.
daisy / 598 posts
I think her shape right now, at least what I saw from the Grammy’s was lovely…it’s a shame they didn’t show that off….
guest
What? Another fashion magazine is rejecting the idea that you can be beautiful if you’re not tiny and angular??? I’m shocked.
I don’t like Vogue anyway. It’s a magazine that celebrates wealth, superficiality and materialism.
guest
@erotyka@xanga - That’s how I feel about Jennifer Hudson and Christina Aguilera(sp?). Never liked their voices/singing styles. I wish Hudson would sit down.
I love Adele, though. Not the best singer of our time but a good one.
hydrangea / 90 posts
They conveniently focus on her voluptuous breasts but fail to acknowledge the fact that those are a package deal with the rest of her curves. I’m naturally pretty skinny, but that also means that I am not as gifted in the chest region. Why do they pick and choose which curves are okay and which are not?
guest
Duh. It’s Vogue.
daisy / 501 posts
It’d be nice if people realized “curvy” is not a synonym for “overweight”. That being said, she’s beautiful and they absolutely thinned her out.
guest
In the future, I will be proud to name Adele as a top artist of my generation; she is beautiful and talented.
In my opinion, Adele is a gorgeous woman who deserves to have a glamor photo shoot; she isn’t selling herself short or hiding her body, she is letting herself be media beautiful while still being beautiful in real life: every woman should permit herself to a photo shoot that allows airbrushing and lighting and poses; yet, everyone knows the camera lies– art is art; the canvas of Vogue is the same canvas as Chanel– fake is in; Adele is naturally beautiful and she is adapting to the world of fashion which thrives on a Vogue canvas… Any woman who wants to go somewhere in the world heeds the eye of those in the fashion world– fortunately, fashion canvases change, and eventually in a hundred years– the natural photos of Adele may be more appealing to the masses than the fake ones… but for now, most people want to see people Vogue-ified.
Interesting post!
peony / 1 posts
@erotyka@xanga - ME TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please just go away!!!