{"id":2081499,"date":"2025-10-10T10:05:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T10:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2081499"},"modified":"2025-10-10T10:05:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T10:05:19","slug":"victoria-beckham-netflix-docs-big-revelations-posh-spice-to-fashion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/victoria-beckham-netflix-docs-big-revelations-posh-spice-to-fashion\/","title":{"rendered":"Victoria Beckham Netflix doc’s big revelations: Posh Spice to fashion"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>\n

\n

Content warning: This story includes discussions of eating disorders.<\/i><\/p>\n

When Netflix dropped its 2023 docuseries \u201cBeckham,\u201d Victoria Beckham stole the show with her British humor and viral Rolls<\/u>–<\/u>Royce <\/u>moment<\/u><\/a>. But the spotlight was still largely her husband\u2019s to relish.<\/p>\n

The tables have turned in \u201cVictoria Beckham,\u201d released Thursday on Netflix. The three-part docuseries \u2014 helmed by Nadia Hallgren, who directed \u201cBecoming,\u201d<\/u><\/a> the streamer\u2019s doc about Michelle Obama \u2014 follows the U.K.\u2019s favorite honorary royal on her journey from awkward theater kid to pop icon to fashion mogul. The documentary is bookended by and structured around the Victoria Beckham Paris Fashion Week show in 2024.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not about him,\u201d Victoria says, referencing her legendary footballer husband in the documentary\u2019s opening minutes. \u201cIt\u2019s about me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Produced by David Beckham\u2019s production company, Studio 99, \u201cVictoria Beckham\u201d inevitably paints its eponymous subject in a flattering light, doubling down on her characterization as an \u201cunderdog\u201d from a working-class family. But after hearing, over the course of the docuseries, British broadcasters lambaste Victoria about everything from her weight to her naivety, it feels like she\u2019s earned it. <\/p>\n

Concerned about how a documentary about her might be received, Victoria said she was initially hesitant to agree to the project.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt first, I said \u2018no,\u2019 but then I took a bit of time and I really thought long and hard about it,\u201d the designer said. \u201cI have been so defined by when I was in the Spice Girls, which was only a four-year period in my life, whereas fashion I\u2019ve been in for coming up to two decades.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cUp until recently, I was aware I was still fighting the preconceptions because of my previous career and always being mindful of the noise and just focusing on building the [fashion and beauty] brand,\u201d she said. It was only recently that she felt that she could share her story without it reflecting negatively on her business ventures. <\/p>\n

While the docuseries dodges controversial topics like David\u2019s alleged affair<\/u><\/a>, a potential Spice Girls reunion and the Beckhams\u2019 rumored rift with their son Brooklyn Peltz Beckham \u2014 who, unlike his three siblings, never appears in the film \u2014 and his wife, Nicola Peltz Beckham, it does still reveal much about Victoria and her fraught relationship with her Posh Spice persona.<\/p>\n

Here are seven takeaways from the Netflix docuseries.<\/p>\n

\n
<\/picture>\n
\n

Spice Girls Melanie Chisholm (Sporty Spice), from left, Melanie Brown (Scary Spice), Emma Bunton (Baby Spice), Geri Halliwell (Ginger Spice) and Victoria Beckham (Posh Spice) pose for a group photo.<\/p>\n

(Netflix)<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n

With the Spice Girls, Victoria blossomed<\/h3>\n

As a young girl growing up in Hertfordshire, England, Victoria didn\u2019t have many friends and her confidence suffered as a result.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was definitely a loner at school,\u201d Victoria said. \u201cI was bullied. I was awkward. I wasn\u2019t particularly sociable. I just didn\u2019t fit in at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

But becoming Posh Spice completely altered how she perceived herself and was a critical step toward self-acceptance. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt was the first time that I ever felt like I belonged. All of a sudden, I was popular,\u201d Victoria said. \u201cMy life would be very different if I hadn\u2019t met those four girls.\u201d<\/p>\n

From Posh Spice to WAG<\/h3>\n

Victoria is often credited for creating the phenomenon of WAGs (wives and girlfriends of high-profile athletes).<\/p>\n

Shortly after she married David in 1999, the Spice Girls disbanded, leaving Victoria without a key aspect of her identity: \u201cWe were like a tornado, and then all of a sudden, it stopped.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lost without her pop-star persona, Victoria leaned into the role of supportive wife. Her public outings consisted of attending Manchester United games and shopping for designer clothes \u2014 always in view of paparazzi.<\/p>\n

\u201cI look at those pictures and I smile. But when I look back and think, why?\u201d Victoria said in the documentary. \u201cI suppose there was an element of attention-seeking, if I\u2019m being completely honest. It was at a time when I didn\u2019t feel creatively fulfilled, so it\u2019s how I stayed in the conversation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t realize it at the time, but I was trying to find myself,\u201d she said. \u201cI felt incomplete, sad, frozen in time maybe.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n
\"A <\/picture>\n
\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been everything from Porky Posh to Skinny Posh,\u201d Victoria Beckham said in her Netflix docuseries, released Thursday. <\/p>\n

(Netflix)<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n

Victoria battled an eating disorder<\/h3>\n

Mere months after giving birth to Brooklyn in 1999, Victoria was pressured into weighing herself live on Chris Evans\u2019 show \u201cTFI Friday\u201d so viewers could see whether she\u2019d lost her \u201cbaby weight.\u201d She laughed it off, but the experience traumatized her. <\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t know what I saw when I looked in the mirror. Was I fat? Was I thin? I don\u2019t know. You lose all sense of reality,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Unable to influence what the tabloids said about her body, Victoria said she controlled her weight instead: \u201cI was controlling it in an incredibly unhealthy way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Victoria said that she never confided in her parents about her eating disorder, nor did she ever speak about it publicly. She first opened up about her restrictive diet and binge eating in her 2001 autobiography, \u201cLearning to Fly.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the gym, instead of checking my posture or position, I was checking the size of my bottom, or to see if my double chin was getting any smaller,\u201d she writes in the book \u2014 although she denies having had anorexia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At first, designers laughed Victoria off<\/h3>\n

Following the Beckhams\u2019 move across the pond to California, Victoria decided to seriously pursue her dream of working in the fashion industry. When news broke of her career pivot, designers were skeptical.<\/p>\n

And when her debut collection got remarkably good press, she was accused of passing off her mentor Roland Mouret\u2019s designs as her own.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course, there\u2019s gotta be a man behind it. It couldn\u2019t be like a silly little pop star,\u201d Victoria said in the documentary.<\/p>\n

Victoria, who had been infatuated with fashion since childhood and had spent most of the Spice Girls\u2019 clothing budget on Gucci dresses, refused to give up so easily. She put her head down and kept working until she earned her peers\u2019 respect.<\/p>\n

Anna Wintour is a Victoria Beckham fan<\/h3>\n

In 2009, Madonna wore a black zippered dress from Victoria Beckham\u2019s debut collection in a W Magazine photoshoot. Two years later, Victoria Beckham won designer brand of the year at the British Fashion Awards.<\/p>\n

Even Anna Wintour admitted she had misjudged the pop star-turned-luxury designer.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we can all be a bit snobby in the fashion business and think, maybe this is, you know, a side gig,\u201d Wintour said in the doc. \u201cBut Victoria was one that totally proved us wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n

Victoria\u2019s business almost went under<\/h3>\n

Among the documentary\u2019s most shocking moments is Victoria\u2019s business partner David Belhassen revealing that the designer was spending $70,000 a year on office plants. (Plus another $15,000 annually for someone to water them.)<\/p>\n

That fact goes a long way in explaining why Victoria\u2019s brand, while generally well-regarded, was deep in debt even after years of investment from the designer\u2019s husband.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were tens of millions in the red,\u201d Victoria said.<\/p>\n

Once David reluctantly closed the bank, Victoria was \u201cdesperate,\u201d she said. So she pleaded her case with Belhassen.<\/p>\n

Flummoxed by the level of financial waste and the dire situation Victoria\u2019s brand faced, Belhassen initially resolved to tell Victoria \u201cno.\u201d Then, by chance, his wife wore a Victoria Beckham dress to date night; stunned by the quality of the garment, he changed his mind.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Victoria] was very emotional, and she told me, \u2018I won\u2019t let you down,\u2019\u201d Belhassen said.<\/p>\n

Women\u2019s Wear Daily<\/a> reported in August that the brand\u2019s revenue hit $150 million last year and that it is now \u201con track for long-term profitability.\u201d<\/p>\n

Posh Spice is in the past<\/h3>\n

Victoria said in the documentary that she will always be grateful for the opportunities the Spice Girls gave her.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have never forgotten where I come from. I\u2019ve never, ever forgotten that Posh Spice is the reason that I\u2019m sitting here now,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

But she\u2019s also known since the Return of the Spice Girls Tour, the legendary girl group\u2019s reunion tour that ran from 2007 to 2008, that her days as Posh Spice are long gone.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was during that tour that I realized I didn\u2019t belong on stage. It had been fun, but it wasn\u2019t what I loved anymore,\u201d she said. Fashion has been her focus since, and she\u2019s still hungry for success with her Victoria Beckham brand. <\/p>\n

As Victoria tells David in the final moments of the docuseries, \u201cI\u2019m proud and I\u2019m not ashamed to say that I\u2019m ambitious, and I\u2019ve still got a lot that I wanna do.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not stopping yet,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\n
\"Victoria, <\/picture>\n
\n

Victoria and David Beckham walk the grounds of their Cotswolds, England, estate, which is featured heavily in \u201cVictoria Beckham.\u201d<\/p>\n

(Netflix)<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.latimes.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Content warning: This story includes discussions of eating disorders. When Netflix dropped its 2023 docuseries \u201cBeckham,\u201d Victoria Beckham stole the show with her British humor and viral Rolls–Royce moment. But the spotlight was still largely her husband\u2019s to relish. The tables have turned in \u201cVictoria Beckham,\u201d released Thursday on Netflix. The three-part docuseries \u2014 helmed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2081500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2081499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Victoria-Beckham-Netflix-docs-big-revelations-Posh-Spice-to-fashion.com2F932Fc32F52d2667b44aeaac620d1ff5a.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2081499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2081501,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081499\/revisions\/2081501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2081500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2081499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2081499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2081499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}