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Karl Lagerfeld: Adele “A Little Too Fat” and Lana Del Rey “Beautiful” With “Implants”

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Karl Lagerfeld was at Metro’s Paris office on Monday acting as guest editor, and the fashion icon took a few minutes to share his thoughts on the news of the day.

That’s when things got interesting.

Asked about up-and-coming singer Lana del Rey, who was lambasted for her recent “Saturday Night Live” performance, Chanel‘s creative director said, “I prefer Adele and Florence Welch. But as a modern singer [del Rey] is not bad. She looks very much like a modern-time singer.”

Added Lagerfeld, “In her photos she is beautiful. Is she a construct with all her implants? She’s not alone with implants.”

“The thing at the moment is Adele,” observed the designer, adding, “She is a little too fat, but she has a beautiful face and a divine voice.”

Yikes.

Lagerfeld was also asked about President Obama, and said he deserves to be reelected “especially because of Mrs. [Michelle] Obama.

“I’m a big fan of Mrs. Obama – and her face, I think, is magical. He [Obama] would not be there without her,” explained Lagerfeld.

“Mrs. Obama is not a fashion statement, but she has other things to do,” continued Lagerfeld. “My favorite thing about Mrs Obama was when she was asked if her skirt was not too tight and she answered “Why you don’t like my big black a**?”

He concluded, “I want Obama to win because there is nothing better anyway, and especially because of her.”

What do you think of Lagerfeld’s opinions?

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  • Anonymous

    I love Adele! Part of her charm is that she is NOT your average anorexic star with no talent. Shut your pie hold, Karl.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=658361960 Elle O’Elle

    i think he just needs to stfu about Adele’s weight. lol

  • http://twitter.com/kylew1973 Kyle Willard

    He looks like my friends grandma…

  • CTgirl

    Karl Lagerfeld is a bitchy, vapid, ugly (inside and out) female impersonator. He is so overrated and unappealing in every sense.

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    Hes a designer, Im not surprised he said that *rolls eyes*

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  • Courtney

    so what she’s not a tooth pick of a girl like the models he hires for his ads/runways not every woman in the world is meant to be a tooth pick and it’s not like 175 is actually overweight for a woman 5’9″ either

  • Anonymous

    This is what I hate: “She’s too fat” is cruel but saying “tooth pick girl” is fine? Why is it so cruel to call someone fat, but to call someone too skinny is completely acceptable? I am apperantly in the “too skinny” category, and there is nothing I can do about it because I can not gain weight and I am sick and tired of people feeling like it’s OK to comment on naturally skinny peoples’ weight and calling them anorexic but calling an overweight person “a little too fat” is a crime.
    People should start opening their eyes, when they try to defend one person they offend another one without noticing it.

    My rant here is over, but I want to say that I kind of agree with him. I think she is amazing and stunning, but when you think about her HEALTH she is too overweight. Sure having curves is beautiful but from what it seems, she doesn’t really look healthy anymore.
    Im probably going to get a lot of hate because I said that but I’m just being honest.

  • French Flies

    Typical moron, voting for a man because his wife is crass.

  • Sara

    You just completely contradicted yourself when you complained about people picking on anyones weight, fat or skinny but then you turn around and say yes, Adele is to fat. Well then maybe you really are, just are a skinny toothpick then? See what I did there? If you want people to stop throwing stones your way then don’t throw them in the opposite direction.

    Honestly its not anyones business to be making decisions on someone else health and body image. While many people like yourself think that an overweight person doesn’t look healthy, there are also many people who think someone who is so skinny their bones are sticking out is not healthy either. What makes you think that she like you who say you can’t gain weight, can’t lose weight easily herself?

  • Sarat

    Adele could be the size of a house and I would still buy every single album of hers and pay to go to as many concerts as I could. When I listen to her music I can’t see what her face looks like or what her body shape is, all I hear is her voice. She has an amazing gift and her weight has nothing to do with it. Lana Del Rays fakes breasts however would not influence me to pay money for her music, especially after hearing what she really sounds like live. Image can only take you so far but if you actually have an amazing talent it doesn’t really matter what you look like, Adele has proved that the world will fall in love with your music all the same. I don’t understand the music industries obsession with image because when music comes out of the speakers you can’t see the artist anyway. This is the same reason that Lady Gaga baffles me. She uses so much image to sell her music but if you strip all of that crap away and your left with a girl sitting in front of a piano playing and singing, then she still has beautiful voice. Image isn’t anything if it has no substance behind. We should be buying music based on the sound of it not because of some fake imagery the music industry tries to blind us with.

  • Kris

    Wow you are an idiot. So long as she maintains a healthy, balanced diet and exercises regularly, her size does not matter and her HEALTH will be fine. She is tall and has a wide frame so she will never be stick skinny. And stick skinny is just as unhealthy as overweight. Sure stick skinny people are less likely to end up with diseases associated with being overweight BUT when the body runs out of fat reserves, it starts to feed on muscle. The heart is a muscle. Guess what happens when the heart suffers extensive damage.. HEART FAILURE!

  • http://twitter.com/NeverGoOutside Brandi Woods

    Since when does weight have anything to do with whether or not someone has talent? Maybe if this moron could look past the superficial, he would notice what amazing women are in front of him. Whoever this joker is, he needs to get a clue.

  • soapbox

    For someone who looks like Rosario from “Will and Grace”, he shouldn’t be pointing fingers at other people’s flaws. He is in fashion though. It’s his bread and butter to completely break women down to nothing but looks, as in what’s wrong with them. So he didn’t have anything pithy to say about any male star’s or appearances? Quelle Suprise!

  • soapbox

    For someone who looks like Rosario from “Will and Grace”, he shouldn’t be pointing fingers at other people’s flaws. He is in fashion though. It’s his bread and butter to completely break women down to nothing but looks, as in what’s wrong with them. So he didn’t have anything pithy to say about any male star’s or appearances? Quelle Suprise!

  • jae

    My question is this? Has this man looked at himself in the mirror lately? Does he have a clue as to how creepy he looks to the rest of the world or does he really think this looks good? Just curious.

  • Tinkerbell74

    He really needs to keep his comments to himself. This is why girls have issues with self image.

  • Val 5.

    there is no one way to be beautiful for a woman. I find adele splendid.

  • Regina1180

    His stupid comments shouldn’t have been reprinted.

  • Nik36

    Why is it not okay to comment on an overweight persons weight. It’s okay to ban a smoking person from buildings because it isn’t healthy, and we feel fine saying something to them about how smoking can kill you….yet it it sooooo wrong to state that someone is overweight…it’s obvious. I don’t think Adele is ugly or anything and she has a tremendous amount of talent but she is overweight, that isn’t a secret, so what is the big deal. Being overweight can lead to a variety of diseases and kill you just like smoking can, so why is it okay to publicly speak out about one and not the other. It isn’t like he was picking on her or anything he was just stating a fact. He even complements her on her face and her “divine” voice. I wouldn’t say she has to be a toothpick, but she is obviously overweight, if she is fine with that then that is fine but it doesn’t mean no one has the right to comment on it. If we see a model that is “too skinny” everyone blasts her right. “Thats unhealthy, she obviously doesn’t eat”, “She looks like a skeleton”…yet it’s not okay to say “Shes a little too fat, but has a beautiful face and a divine voice”. What is wrong with that. I’m not sure I understand why people can say some of these things but not the other.

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  • Guest

    I think the difference between a smoker and an overweight person is pretty clear. A smoker is not only dangering themselves but threatening the health of those around them. Adele being overweight does not effect you or I or anyone except Adele. The fact of the matter is the world puts out so much pressure to be thin, I would place money on the fact that a skinny person would get pick on alot less then a fat person. Why is it anyones job to inform someone else about their body. Like you said it is no secret that Adele is over weight so why the need to make public comments like that. It seems to me it is only used a humiliation and a reason to put someone down to make ones self feel better. From your post I bet you have never once struggled with your weight and until that time comes you have no idea what it feels like to be ridiculed about your own body by someone else, and put down your whole like just because you don’t look a certain way the world expects you to.

  • guest

    Bravo to jae.. What makes this silly old man think he ithe has the right to judge anyone else? Look in the mirror sir!

  • Anonymous

    “She’s not alone with implants.” Yep, she always has a company. I thought he’s more… I don’t know… gentle…?

  • Anonymous

    I don’t want to start an arguement but I feel like I should at least explain myself; I don’t know her personally but after seeing so many weight loss programs on TV about where the “unhealhy limit” goes, she SEEMS unhealthy, but who knows? Maybe she just has thick bones and is completely healthy, so maybe I am a bit judgemental. But people can’t keep denying the fact that she IS overweight when she probably is.
    And you can’t really compare me to her as I am a completely healthy person as a am very far away from the “unhealthy limit”. Anyways, I don’t want to argue. Just wanted to clear some things up.

  • Anonymous

    Yes I agree, but she doesn’t seem to exercize and have a balanced diet, because if she did, the chances are that we would have seen a bit of a result a long time ago.

    She keeps saying that she does not want to lose weight and will stay this way (props to her for standing up for herself)but who knows what will happen to her if she stays this way forever?
    I am very skinny, but healthy and even though there is nothing wrong with my weight (healthwise) I still try to gain weight. She although, doesn’t seem to be healthy and will not do anything about it. I can’t blame her though, she’s fighting for her body image.

  • Anonymous

    Do not bet money on that because I guarentee you will lose.

    Because it is more “acceptable” to be skinny people feel like its more acceptable to give comments saying “Oh my gosh youre so skinny!”, “Are you anorexic?”, “You should eat some more”, “Follow her to the bathroom to make sure she doesn’t shove to fingers in her throat”, when they have absolutely no idea how much it affects the person they are commenting on. But because being skinny is much more “acceptable” we probably don’t get as hurt as a large person gets when they get comments, because being overweight is not as accepted. And because it’s not accepted being overweight, people usually don’t point out the fact that they are fat because its apperantly “the worst thing you can do”, but usually when someone does comment on their weight, it’s just some idiots mocking them.

    So my conclusion is that a skinny person gets more comments because many people think its like giving a complement, and the comments are just as harsh as mocking a large person, but the person who is saying it thinks its fine, and we who get the comment dont get as hurt as people don’t find it “as bad” to be too skinny.

    A large person gets less comments because if someone comments on their weight its a “crime”, but when they do get comments it affects them probably a whole lot more.

  • Ddd

    You’re absolutely an idiot. Please do us a favor and GO AWAY!

  • Anonymous

    <3

  • Mercy Manson

    He looks just like my friends dead, embalmed, grandma at her funeral! The only thing different was g-ma didn’t wear gloves. She let those liver spots shine!!!

  • Mercy Manson

    AMEN! He actually scares me. Always has. He’s got to be a NAZI!

  • Mercy Manson

    To the 2 of ya’ll, she IS FAT, and there is no such thing as thick bones. Her weight aside, all I know about her is what I see in pictures, and what I see is my Aunt Erma leaving the beauty salon screaming about how she is never goin back cuz the f’ed her hair up for the last time! The resemblance ends there. My Aunt Erma was skinny.LOL!

  • Mercy Manson

    Her weight won’t affect you unless u are in the front row and she trips falls on you or she makes an attempt to crowd surf and you are the first she she falls on!lol!

  • Kris

    Idiot is not a harsh word. There’s plenty of other things I could have called you that are much worse. And idiot is a good description not for your opinion but what you are thinking because you clearly have no idea on the subject. Eating a healthy balanced diet and exercising regularly does not necessarily mean she will be skinny. There are plenty of people who do that and still have extra padding. It’s just the way their bodies are because of their genes.

    And besides all of that, she’s not a model, she’s a singer and a great one at that! Regardless of her looks, she has a lot of fans because it’s her amazing voice that sells her music. Haven’t you ever noticed that most opera singers have extra padding? And did you ever think there might be a connection to their size and their voice?

  • eva

    c´mon people. it´s karl lagerfeld. he´s a bitch since ever and his tongue is sharp. That´s what he´s about and I think he´s very funny. do you think the very succesfull adele cares about something like this? I don´t think so. And by the way he actually said he loves adele and he´s right about saying that she´s fat, cause she is! (me, too by the way and also Karl used to be) Lot´s of people think it. He says it. I like when people are honest and say what they think. I like Karl and Adele :)

  • G3P

    There’s a difference between being skinny and fat and a “skinny toothpick” and a “fat hippo”. Skinny people have no issues with being called a bit too thin if they in fact are (i.e. underweight BMI), so why can’t the opposite be true?

  • Mike

    I believe the issue is that Adele needs to shut HER pie hole

    Zing!

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