{"id":2079969,"date":"2025-10-09T17:55:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T17:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2079969"},"modified":"2025-10-09T17:55:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T17:55:18","slug":"i-didnt-like-what-i-saw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/i-didnt-like-what-i-saw\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I didn&#8217;t like what I saw&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/person\/victoria-beckham\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Victoria Beckham;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Victoria Beckham<\/a> gets candid about her decades-long struggle with an eating disorder in her revealing new Netflix docuseries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In the self-titled docuseries (out now), the fashion designer and former Spice Girl, 51, speaks openly about her struggle with her body image, sharing that it worsened after she gave birth to her first child and eldest son, Brooklyn, in 1999 and as she transitioned into motherhood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI really started to doubt myself and not like myself, you know, because I let it affect me,&#8221; Beckham says of the comments made about her weight in tabloids and on television. \u201cI was just very critical of myself. I didn\u2019t like what I saw. I\u2019ve been everything from Porky Posh to Skinny Posh.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-3 right-3 size-10 md:size-[50px] lg:inset-0 lg:size-full lg:bg-transparent\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-0 right-0 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 22 22\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"size-4 lg:size-6\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\"><path d=\"M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed inset-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-white hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<div style=\"max-height:none;overflow:visible\">\n<p>Netflix<\/p>\n<p> Victoria Beckham on her Netflix docuseries &#8216;Victoria Beckham&#8217;<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She continues, &#8220;I had no control over what was being written about me, pictures that were being taken, and I suppose I wanted to control that, you know? I could control it with clothing, I could control my weight, and I was controlling it in an incredibly unhealthy way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Beckham says she became good &#8220;at lying&#8221; as a result of the disorder. &#8220;When you have an eating disorder, you become very good at lying,&#8221; she says. &#8220;And I was never honest about it with my parents. I never talked about it publicly. It really affects you when you\u2019re being told, constantly, you\u2019re not good enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Beckham&#8217;s longtime husband, former soccer player David Beckham, is also featured in the docuseries and recalls of that early period, \u201cMy Victoria that I knew sits at home in a tracksuit, smiling, laughing, having a glass of wine. That started to go purely because of the criticism she was getting.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><img alt=\"Netflix Victoria and David Beckham on her Netflix docuseries 'Victoria Beckham'\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/gn9PWpvKJX5gXgrBUmrYlw--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTY0MTtjZj13ZWJw\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/entertainment_weekly_785\/17dbe02e7401a32f969e5b1792652f4c\"\/><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-3 right-3 size-10 md:size-[50px] lg:inset-0 lg:size-full lg:bg-transparent\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-0 right-0 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 22 22\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"size-4 lg:size-6\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\"><path d=\"M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed inset-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-white hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<div style=\"max-height:none;overflow:visible\">\n<p>Netflix<\/p>\n<p> Victoria and David Beckham on her Netflix docuseries &#8216;Victoria Beckham&#8217;<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong><em>Get your daily dose of entertainment news, celebrity updates, and what to watch with\u00a0our\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/ew-dispatch-newsletter-11812417\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:EW Dispatch newsletter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">EW Dispatch newsletter<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The three-part docuseries follows the fashion designer as she prepares for Paris Fashion Week, offering rare insight into her life. Beckham also revisits her time with the Spice Girls, revealing that the transition from the group, which disbanded in 2000, to a life as a wife and mother was &#8220;difficult.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWhen the Spice Girls finished, it was so extreme,\u201d Beckham shares. \u201cOne minute I\u2019m spreading word of girl power, and then the next minute I\u2019m a wife in a flat in Manchester, not really having any friends, living a long way away from my family. And I found that transition really, really difficult.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Beckham previously appeared on her husband&#8217;s own Netflix four-part docuseries, <em>Beckham<\/em>, in 2023, which chronicled his rise to sports stardom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><em>Victoria Beckham<\/em> is streaming now on Netflix.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Read the original article on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/victoria-beckham-eating-disorder-struggles-11827318\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Entertainment Weekly;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Entertainment Weekly<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victoria Beckham gets candid about her decades-long struggle with an eating disorder in her revealing new Netflix docuseries. 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