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" Picture: Getty Images After\u00A0a two-and-a-half-year hiatus, Adele returned to the music scene with &amp;quot;Hello&amp;quot; \u2013 the first single from her new\u00A0album,\u00A0\u200B25\u200B \u2013 and promptly broke innumerable play, sales and download records. With the album just a few weeks away (it is released on 20 November), Adele appears on the cover of\u00A0\u200BRolling Stone\u200B, make-up-free with her wet hair casually pushed back, a refreshing\u00A0departure from her normally super-glam appearance. Inside, an intimate profile offers a glimpse into the secluded life of the star. Read on for her thoughts on motherhood, her career and feminism, then\u00A0read the full profile here.\u00A0 On today&amp;#039;s music:\u00A0&amp;quot;I feel like I don&amp;#039;t know what&amp;#039;s going on in the charts and in popular culture. I&amp;#039;ve not lost touch with, like, reality. Just with what&amp;#039;s current... I&amp;#039;m just f*cking waiting for Frank f*cking Ocean to come out with his album. It&amp;#039;s taking so f*cking long. That sounds so stupid, coming from me, doesn&amp;#039;t it?&amp;quot;\u200B On fame:\u00A0&amp;quot;People think I hate being famous, and I don&amp;#039;t. I&amp;#039;m really frightened of it. I think it&amp;#039;s really toxic, and I think it&amp;#039;s really easy to be dragged into it. Watching Amy [Winehouse] deteriorate is one of the reasons I&amp;#039;m a bit frightened. We were all very entertained by her being a mess. I was f*cking sad about it, but if someone showed me a picture of her looking bad, I&amp;#039;d look at it. If we hadn&amp;#039;t looked, then they&amp;#039;d have stopped taking her picture. That level of attention is really frightening, especially if you don&amp;#039;t live around all that showbiz stuff.&amp;quot; On her boyfriend, Simon Konecki:\u00A0\u200B&amp;quot;He&amp;#039;s so supportive, and that takes a very big man, because I&amp;#039;m very successful at what I do. My last boyfriend was uncomfortable with how successful I was, and the fact that he had to share me with lots of people.&amp;quot; On marriage:\u00A0\u200B&amp;quot;We haven&amp;#039;t broken up. We&amp;#039;ve never broken up. We&amp;#039;ve been together. We just haven&amp;#039;t felt the need to get married. We&amp;#039;ve got a kid together. I feel like that&amp;#039;s a big enough commitment.&amp;quot;\u200B On the concept of the &amp;quot;squad&amp;quot;:\u00A0&amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve heard about a squad. I wish my squad was all supermodels. We are, in our brains. I guess I have my own squad. It&amp;#039;s not as interesting as some of the other squads that are around right now. But maybe Rihanna can be in my squad! That would be really cool. Oh, God. She&amp;#039;s life itself, isn&amp;#039;t she? I love her.&amp;quot; \u200BOn the pressure of\u00A0\u200B21\u200B&amp;#039;s\u00A0success:\u00A0&amp;quot;I felt like I&amp;#039;d lost control of my life at one point. The bigger that your career gets, the smaller your life gets.&amp;quot;\u200B On her pregnancy:\u00A0\u200B&amp;quot;All my plans went through.\u00A0It was like, &amp;#039;For good measure, let&amp;#039;s see if I can cope with all of this and then having a baby.&amp;#039; But I think actually the pregnancy was perfect timing in the end. It might&amp;#039;ve seemed like the most ridiculous time to have a baby, but I was starting to get a bit afraid of everything.&amp;quot;\u00A0 On her son, Angelo:\u00A0&amp;quot;When I had him, it made everything all right, and I trusted everything because the world had given me this miracle, you know, so I became a bit of a hippie, an Earth mother... \u200BAll the things I really like about myself, he brings out in me, and he&amp;#039;s the only person that tells me no. He completely rules me. He&amp;#039;s the boss of me, and it&amp;#039;s so funny for other people to watch, because I&amp;#039;m the boss of everything in my work life.&amp;quot;\u200B On comparisons to skin-baring\u00A0pop stars:\u00A0\u200B&amp;quot;I&amp;#039;d rather not be the person that everyone gets pitted against.\u00A0If they do decide to get their body out, I would rather not be that person because that&amp;#039;s just pitting a woman against another woman, and I don&amp;#039;t hold any more moral high ground than anyone else. So that has pissed me off a bit. Not that I&amp;#039;m going to start getting my tits out now!&amp;quot; \u200BOn her weight:\u00A0\u200B&amp;quot;Would I show my body off if I was thinner? Probably not, because my body is mine. But sometimes I&amp;#039;m curious to know if I would have been as successful if I wasn&amp;#039;t plus-size. I think I remind everyone of themselves. Not saying everyone is my size, but it&amp;#039;s relatable because I&amp;#039;m not perfect, and I think a lot of people are portrayed as perfect, unreachable and untouchable.&amp;quot;\u00A0 \u200BOn feminism:\u00A0&amp;quot;\u200BI&amp;#039;m a feminist.\u00A0I believe that everyone should be treated the same, including race and sexuality.&amp;quot; \u200BOn her reputation for sad music and her new album:\u00A0&amp;quot;\u200BDo you think everyone will be disappointed that I&amp;#039;m happy?\u200B\u00A0\u200BIt would be a bit tragic to do a heartbreak album again.\u00A0A clich\u00E9, not even tragic! It&amp;#039;d be such a clich\u00E9. What if I was heartbroken? What the f*ck would I write about? &amp;#039;Cause I can&amp;#039;t write a f*cking heartbreak record again! So just flip and reverse it.&amp;quot;\u200B \u200BOn her previous albums:\u00A0&amp;quot;Being defined by any record is a dream come true when you&amp;#039;re an artist.\u00A0To the general public, it&amp;#039;s not about your body of work.\u00A0In most cases, it&amp;#039;s about the song that reminds them of something in their lives. They take you into their heart.\u200B&amp;quot; Theo Wenner for Rolling Stone Via HarpersBazaar.com *** MORE ADELE Adele beats Taylor Swift&amp;#039;s recordWatch Adele&amp;#039;s video for 25 hereAdele to headline Glastonbury? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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