<http://schema.org/articleBody>
"PinterestFacebookWatching Adele strike pose after pose for Glamour&amp;#39;s photographer in a London studio, you&amp;#39;d find it hard to believe this is the British soul singer&amp;#39;s first beauty shoot&amp;#8212;she&amp;#39;s about as self-conscious as a Pussycat Doll. Being a plus-size star in an industry where singers often resemble supermodels clearly doesn&amp;#39;t faze her. &amp;quot;Everyone who tries to make it in America looks perfect&amp;#8212;they&amp;#39;re all so tiny,&amp;quot; says Adele. &amp;quot;I was worried people wouldn&amp;#39;t notice my music and would just think, That girl&amp;#39;s twice the size of our average singer! But it hasn&amp;#39;t been an issue.&amp;quot;\nDubbed &amp;quot;Britain&amp;#39;s best new singer,&amp;quot; this 20-year-old got her start by posting songs on MySpace. Adele&amp;#39;s debut album, 19 (her age when it was released in the U.K.), top-ped charts, and she won the Critics Choice Brit Award, England&amp;#39;s equivalent of the Grammy. Her McDreamy ballad &amp;quot;Hometown Glory&amp;quot; played on last season&amp;#39;s finale of Grey&amp;#39;s Anatomy; this past summer, VH1 had the video for her single &amp;quot;Chasing Pavements&amp;quot; in heavy rotation. Fans include everyone from Beyonc\u00E9 to Perez Hilton.\nBut despite her twenty-first-century fame, Adele&amp;#8212;a.k.a. Adele Laurie Blue Adkins&amp;#8212;has an old-school approach to singing: She found her own voice by crooning along to records by blues legend Etta James. While critics inevitably branded her &amp;quot;the new Amy,&amp;quot; she and party girl Winehouse don&amp;#39;t have much in common aside from a love of classic soul and a tendency to speak their minds, as Glamour found out!\nWhat inspired her album: &amp;quot;When I was 18, I had this boyfriend who cheated. Rather than being extremely mopey, I managed to write songs. Which kind of eased the pain, I guess, even though I wanted to kill him.&amp;quot; Favorite splurge: &amp;quot;I come from nothing, and never had a designer handbag in my life&amp;#8212;but now I have more than 30! I&amp;#39;ve gotten over some designer clothing, though. Most go up to a size 10. British girls are like size 14 to 16. How are we going to fit?&amp;quot;\nMakeup she loves: &amp;quot;Rimmel eyeliner and Laura Mercier foundation.&amp;quot;\nHer eccentric hair habit: &amp;quot;I only wash it with water. Last night I washed my hair with shampoo for the first time in two months.&amp;quot;\nHer music crush: &amp;quot;I&amp;#39;m addicted to the Jonas Brothers, but do I think it&amp;#39;s true that they won&amp;#39;t have sex until they are married? Millions of girls fancy them! If the Jonas Brothers are virgins, then I&amp;#39;m a man.&amp;quot;\nWhy she likes life in the slow lane: &amp;quot;I went through a phase of going to celebrity parties. And I don&amp;#39;t think I had one proper conversation with anyone. So I would rather be at home with my real friends, having pizza and playing Monopoly.&amp;quot;\nOn insane celeb body ideals: &amp;quot;In Hollywood you are either too fat or you&amp;#39;re too skinny. It&amp;#39;s just absurd. You are never going to please everyone anyway, so what&amp;#39;s the point? Look at Nicole Richie. When she first came out with The Simple Life, they said she needed to lose weight. And then later it was like, Oh, you&amp;#39;re too skinny.&amp;#39; If anyone ever told me to lose weight, I would be like, F&amp;#8212;k off!&amp;#39; And then I&amp;#39;d fire them.&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
<http://www.glamour.com/story/i-dont-care-about-being-a-size-2>