9.27.11 Adam News and Info

I always thought Seal was an exceptional beautiful man.

He and Adam have something else in common too. 8-)

If Seal and Heidi Klum's children ever ask about how their parents fell in love, the couple may have to make something up.
"I met him in a hotel lobby in New York City and he came in just from the gym and I was sitting there and I was, like, wow," Klum tells Oprah Winfrey on her show's Superstar Couples episode set to air Thursday.

Wow, as in Seal was wearing bicycle shorts.

"And I pretty much saw everything," says Klum. "The whole package."

Just a little thought and one perspective on tonight's tweets.

I think the skin tweet could only have come from a wonderfully, fantastically confident and comfortable person. Adam asked us what our biggest insecurity was, and, by the hundreds, we told him. Perhaps he figured fair is fair, and told us his. But that is far from an equal exchange.

Think about it: think about that physical feature of yours that you find most cringe worthy--like most of us, I have plenty to choose from, some of which, I'm sure, exist only in my own head, but okay, there's one that I find particularly upsetting when I think about it, and I'm thinking about it now--you do the same. Now imagine drawing the attention of thousands of people, including many you actually know and interact with, all of whom regularly observe you in high definition detail, to this painful flaw. Okay, that's bad enough. But now imagine that hundreds of those people, after perhaps taking a closer look at that flaw that makes you cringe so, actually talk to you about it. Lovingly, no doubt, and on your own invitation, but saying all kinds of personal things to you, like recommending remedies, or discussing the flaw but saying they love you despite it, or blatantly identifying the very things you do to try and hide it and discussing those (just to be clear, I'm not condemning these responses, which adam actively requested, at all--just looking at them from a particular perspective).

remember, don't imagine all this stuff about Adam and his skin--because of his celebrity we tend to forget that such dissection isn't normally done--but imagine it's happening to you and your cringeworthy flaw. I'm pretty secure and realistic about my insecurities, and don't take them too seriously--they're on a kind of gentle simmer on the back burner--but just imagining such a multiplied and amplified conversation about my silly weaknesses makes me flush red. And Adam outright invited that conversation. That's pretty remarkable for someone so necessarily public and image-conscious as he. That can come only from someone very strong in his sense of self, with a very healthy 'who gives a fuck' attitude.

And that sense, and that attitude, are exactly what has gotten Adam where he is today, and this, I'm sure, he knows. Which is precisely why I adore the picture he tweeted, because it has self and attitude stamped fabulously all over it. He knows many fans won't like the shaved hair, and theyre perfectly reaonable in not liking it, but there is absolutely no reason he should let that stop him, if he feels that razor calling him. He knows that the pose will also be controvertial, that its not the man we want to see draped over him, but what do we know, and why should we care, so why indeed should he?

That stance, that fucked up awesome hair, that fishy look, that blatant sexuality, posed and "ironic" (to borrow a term that, unlike 95% of people, Adam used perfectly in that recent interview) as it was, was 100% pure self and attitude ("it's me, I'm a freak, but thanks for loving me, cause your doing it perfectly"). To be at the center of a fishbowl, and still be proudly fishy, that's some powerful freakin confidence right there! It makes me think of my MIL, who, when she drips some oil on her shirt, instead of throwing it out, draws petals round the stain with a sharpie and wears it all the more. Kinda crazy, but kinda badass, too.

Eta: by the way, I can't imagine minding if my husband posed, or interacted, like that with someone. If the physical attention was clearly not welcome I might find the person annoying but I would guess in this case the affection is mutual, and if I didn't feel totally confident in my partner's love and easy faithfulness, I don't think I'd want to be with him in the first place. As it is, it wouldn't occur to me to be bothered. YMMV, natch.

wiga - I sent you a PM.

MWP, ITA with everything you said in your post. I think Adam is amazingly confident.
But he also has insecurities (as his tweet said) and though they are backed up by that level of confidence that allows him to examine and talk about his insecurities/flaws, the insecurites are still there. It's wht makes him all the more appealing to me.
He did a great job in the Heidi interview even though, (IMO, YMMV, etc.etc.) he did seem uncomfortable to me in the beginning. (And I did mention Seal in my twitlonger, because I wondered if Heidi and S had ever talked about his scars.)

And YAY for the confidence that enables him to tweet that fishy pic--he looks gorgeous and HAWT! (And that is def a look that is enhanced by his beautifully makeup-d face!)

As for the touching-penis pose--if two gay female friends stand close to each other for a pic and their BOOBS touch, would their respective SO's be jealous? I don't think so. Sauli knows he's Adam's love...

Dead thread, but that's okay. Bedtime now.