Adele reveals people's reaction to her pregnancy at height of career success

Grammy-winning singer Adele expressed her views about embracing motherhood at the pinnacle of her career at The Hollywood Reporter's annual Women in Entertainment Gala in Los Angeles. The 35-year-old artist, honoured with the Sherry Lansing Leadership Award asserted that getting pregnant at the success of life is challenging the conventional norms, reported People.

Shedding light on the crucial moment of her pregnancy days at the zenith of her fame, Adele said, "To many world be and was considered career suicide. However, she saw herself as herself as always one to go against the grain."

Adele on the relevance of success for her

Rejecting the idea of being constantly relevant to be successful, the Grammy winner said, “Overnight, it was like I was famous. It was the strangest, most surreal experience of my life until this day. However, she said she chose to reject the idea that you have to be constantly relevant to be successful."

Embracing motherhood while looking back and looking back on what she noted felt like a sudden success with her chart-topping sophomore album. She said, “I got away with it.” Adele said that motherhood will always be her priority and is the reason she’s only had four albums. She said, “My son is 11 years old. At the height of 21 (album) I could only call it pandemonium”.

“It was there and then that I chose to reject the scarcity of success and the idea that you have to be constantly relevant to be successful,” she shared. “And that perhaps, just maybe, I could be a hit both on and off the stage,” she adds.

Helen Mirren honours Adele

However, gradually she managed the work. “You’ll never guess what?” I got away with it,” she told the star-studded crowd at the event, including fellow Brit Helen Mirren, who presented Adele with the honour.

According to People, Adele concluded by praising the women who make sacrifices to embrace motherhood.  She said, “all the sacrifices that women before me have made,” that enabled her success, saying she wouldn’t have been able to do both had it not been for them.

Thanking such women who sacrifice and make mindful choices, she said, “It’s because of them that I have every right to be the boss at work and the boss at home. So thank you.”

The singer looked beautiful in a navy blue pinstripe suit and white pointed shoes for the occasion. She accessorized with gold jewelry and wore her blonde hair in loose waves, reported People. 

(With inputs from ANI)