Adele says she developed jock itch from sweating 'a lot' while performing in Spanx

• Adele said during one of her Las Vegas concerts that she has been diagnosed with jock itch.
• She said that she sweats a lot in Spanx during her performances, leading to a fungal infection.

Adele revealed that she has been diagnosed with jock itch after sweating "a lot" while performing in Spanx.

During one of her shows in her Las Vegas residency over the weekend, Adele opened up to her audience about how much she sweats during her concerts.

"Face is sweating. My tits are sweating," the "Easy on Me" singer said in a video shared on social media. "I sweat a lot, and it doesn't go anywhere, so I basically am just sitting in my own sweat."

Adele went on to say that her doctor gave her jock itch ointment to treat the fungal infection, which is commonly associated with athletes and creates a rash around the groin and thigh areas.

"So my doctor gave me jock itch," Adele said of her diagnosis. "That sounds like I'm a big Nuggets fan, doesn't it? It looks like I'm a big athlete, right?"

The 35-year-old singer continued: "I have to squirt it on myself. I don't know why the fuck I just told you that. And some trashy British paper is going to write about it, 'Adele's got body acne.'"

Jock itch is, unsurprisingly, an itchy skin condition that sometimes appears as a red, scaly, ring-shaped rash, according to Mayo Clinic. It sometimes spreads around the groin, upper thighs, and butt cheeks.

It's common in people who sweat a lot (and particularly men) as fungi thrive in warm, moist areas, but is easily treated with antifungal creams and usually clears up in one to three weeks.

Adele has previously spoken about sciatica

Adele has regularly opened up about her health problems during her Vegas residency.

During her New Year's Eve show last year, the singer said that she had to "waddle" because she had "really bad sciatica."

Sciatica is when the nerve that runs from your lower back and down each leg, known as the sciatic nerve, is irritated or compressed, causing symptoms of pain and numbness.

Adele added at a show in February: "Is anyone else kind of my age starting getting bad knees? I have got really bad sciatica in my left leg and my L5 disc is not fucking there anymore. It's worn away,"

The L5 vertebra is the bottom section of the lumbar spine.

During an interview with The Face in 2021, Adele said she had slipped both her fifth and sixth discs.

"I've been in pain with my back for, like, half of my life, really," she said. "It flares up, normally due to stress or from a stupid bit of posture. But where I got my tummy strong, down at the bottom, which I never had before, my back don't play up as much. It means I can do more, I can run around with my kid a little bit more."