Karl Lagerfeld calls Adele roundish and not fat

Karl Lagerfeld has defended his comments about Adele's weight.



The Chanel creative director - who has claimed his remarks calling the

singer "a little too fat" were taken out of context - insists that

although Adele is a "beautiful girl", she needed to lose weight

because she was "a little roundish".



Speaking on CNN's Fashion: Backstage Pass, he said: "I never said that

she was fat, I said that she was a little roundish.

"A little roundish is not fat. But for such a beautiful girl, after

that she lost eight kilos, so I think the message was not that bad."



Following Karl's comments last year, Adele, 25, insisted she had never

aspired to be stick-thin.

She said: "I'd lose weight if I was an actress and had to play a role

where you're supposed to be 40 pounds lighter, but weight has nothing

to do with my career.



"Even when I was signing [a contract], most of the industry knew if

anyone ever dared say [lose weight] to me, they wouldn't be working

with me."