“I was body positive then, and I’m body positive now.”

“It became my time,” she said.

“Having these sort of pins in my day helped me keep myself together.”

Adele and Oprah

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“It’s not my job to validate how people feel about their bodies,” she said.

“I’m trying to sort my own life out.”

She told Oprah her deadlift topped out around 170 pounds last year.

“I should’ve been an athlete,” she said, gesturing to her body.

Adele says she’s also a good boxer.

“I’ve got a left hook that could kill ya.”

She told Oprah that this helped heal the wound she’d been carrying for years.

“I don’t have to expect someone else to give me stability,” she said.

“I can also be stable for myself.

Be a solid house that doesn’t blow over in a storm.”

Her answer was optimistic: “I hope so.”