Adele Delights Fans With Makeup-Free Photo To Celebrate Her 33rd Birthday

In the years since announcing her divorce from Simon Konecki, Adele's fans have noticed a major change in the soulful singer.

Although she's undergone a clear physical transformation since then, a more important change that both well-wishers and closer friends observed in the months after the split was that she seemed a lot happier and enjoying herself in ways that would qualify as a lot of people's idea of living her best life.

So when Adele celebrated her 33rd birthday on May 5, it came as a major stage in a long personal journey for her. That likely has a lot to do with the adoring response her photo received.

To celebrate, Adele took to Instagram with this makeup-free black and white photo.

But while her accompanying caption of "thirty free" was a little mysterious, it likely has less to do with this aesthetic choice than the fact that this year sees her finalize her divorce at long last.

The classy photo was part of suite of pics that showed her in a similarly radiant place in life.

And it seems her fans and friends were just as excited, with actor Millie Bobby Brown saying, "I love you. that's all" and one of likely several self-proclaimed official fan accounts commenting, "WE LOVE A SELF LOVING QUEEN."

Of course, as we can expect whenever a musician posts anything besides music, one fan said, "where’s the album, tho" only to be shouted down by others telling them to let Adele live her life.

While this was going on, her makeup artist, Michael Ashton, celebrated her birthday in his own way with an endearing throwback photo.

As he said in the caption, "How did we think Blackberry pics were OK ?!?!"

I suppose it was a simpler time, but it's good to see Adele in similarly high spirits as she was back then.