Adele knew full well that becoming pregnant at the height of her fame was “career suicide.”
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However, the fact is that the British singer was willing to take this risk and considered herself capable of maintaining a personal life alongside her career. In 2012, she became pregnant with her son Angelo, just a year after the release of “21,” the album that made her a global star.
“I was famous overnight. To this day it is the strangest and most surreal experience of my life. Then I got pregnant and for many it was considered career suicide,” the artist said while accepting a Sherry Lansing Leadership Award at the Hollywood Reporter's Women in Entertainment Awards in Los Angeles last Thursday (7Dec23).
“Here, however, I decided to go against the grain and reject this extraordinary success (…), in the idea that I could be successful on stage but also off stage,” she continued. “And what if I succeeded. »
In fact, years after making the difficult decision to move away from the spotlight and lead a family life, Adele decided to take a new delicate turn by divorcing Simon Konecki, the father of her son, and at the same time her life resumed immediately. Career. Another successful maneuver for the singer, who has been triumphing in Las Vegas for a year and whose residency has to take place until June next year.