Kim Adkins is Adele's maternal aunt.
Kim is the daughter of John and Doreen Adkins. She has four siblings—Anita, Gary, John Anthony, and Penny, Adele's mother. Kim and Anita both provided Penny with assistance in raising Adele when necessary.[1] Kim was re-married to Shaun Staples and has four children—Bren, Cema-Filiz, Erol, and Erden, with her previous husband.
When Adele was a teenager, she and her cousin, Kim's daughter Cema, worked for Kim in the Riverside Café.[2]