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Victoria Beckham has said that she has been Everything labeled “porky posh” to “skinny posh” As she revealed her experiences with an eating disorder.
Speaking in her newly eponymous Netflix documentary, the former Spice Girls singer said that being in the public eye from an early age affected her self-esteem to such an extent that She started controlling her weight “In an incredibly unhealthy way”.
Beckham, 51, recalls the moment he was weighed on TV after six months giving birth to her first sonBrooklyn, in 1999, and criticism of his presence in the media.
She said, “When we’re on television we laugh at it and make fun of it. But I was really very young and it hurts.”
“I started to really doubt myself and not like myself, and because I let it affect me, I didn’t know what I saw when I looked in the mirror… You lose all sense of reality. I’m just very critical of myself. I didn’t like what I saw.”
Beckham said that because she has no control over what is being written about her or what photographs are taken of her, she wanted to take control of her weight.
“I could control it with clothes. I could control my weight and I was controlling it in an incredibly unhealthy way… It really wears on you when you’re constantly told you’re not good enough.”
She added, “When you have an eating disorder, you become very good at lying. I was never honest with my parents about it. I never talked about it publicly. It really affects you to be constantly told that you’re not good enough. And that’s been with me my whole life.”
The documentary traces her rise to fame as Posh Spice, becoming the fifth best-selling single of all time, to the time she married England footballer David Beckham at the age of 25. It briefly touches on the band’s split in 2001, his short-lived solo music career and goes behind the scenes of his eponymous fashion label, which he launched in 2008.
Speaking in the documentary, David said that in the 1990s and 2000s people felt it was “okay to criticize” women for their weight, when his wife was the subject of media scrutiny over her appearance.
“People thought it was OK to criticize a woman for her weight, what she’s doing, what she’s wearing, then there were a lot of things happening on TV that wouldn’t happen now, that can’t happen now,” she said.
Talking about how it affected her life, she said that she remembered Victoria as a woman who was “sitting in a tracksuit at home, smiling, laughing, having a glass of wine” but this began to fade due to the negativity she was receiving.
Elsewhere in the documentary, Beckham revealed the emotional turmoil she experienced when the Spice Girls disbanded and she didn’t know what to do next.
“We were like a whirlwind, and then suddenly, it stopped,” she said, describing that period as “so extreme.”
“The next thing I knew, I was a wife in a flat in Manchester, with no friends. Living far away from my family. And I found that change really hard.”
He further added, “I know what it’s like to have everything one day and lose it the next.”
Beckham has four children: Brooklyn, 26, Romeo, 22, Cruz, 20, and Harper, 13.
Victoria Beckham Currently streaming on Netflix.
For anyone struggling with the issues raised in this article, the eating disorder charity BeatThe helpline is available 365 days a year on 0808 801 0677. NCFED provides information, resources and counseling for people suffering from eating disorders, as well as their support network. visit eating-disorders.org.uk or call 0845 838 2040