“Victoria Beckham was supported by her beloved family and Spice Girls bandmates on the red carpet at the star-studded premiere of her much-anticipated Netflix documentary.”, — write: www.dailymail.co.uk
Dressed head-to-toe in white, Victoria, 51, was a vision as she slipped into a thigh-high split skirt and structured blazer from her collection.
The mother-of-four was joined by her dapper husband David, 50, for the unveiling of the three-part series – launching October 9 – which follows her journey from a Spice Girl, to a WAG and a fashion designer.
The couple’s sons Romeo, 23, and Cruz, 20, his girlfriend Jackie Apostel, 30, and daughter Harper, 14, was out in full force for the celebration.
Despite the notable absence of her estranged, yet beloved, son Brooklyn, 26, the pop star turned fashion designer couldn’t stop smiling as she revelled in her glory on her big night out.
It was yet another poignant moment, and perhaps a painful reminder, that things have changed for the Beckham gang. For it was just over two years ago that Brooklyn and his wife Nicola Peltz were in attendance for the premiere of David’s show, Beckham, which was held at the same venue.
While Victoria and David have reconciled that they won’t see their eldest son for the foreseeable future, the couple are ‘always missed’ at family gatherings following the fall out which came to a head when the pair shunned all of David’s 50th birthday celebrations.
Still, it was a night of delight for Victoria because there was a mini Spice Girls reunion which was only incomplete because Melanie Brown is currently away on business in the US.
She did, however, send Posh flowers to wish her luck for her big night yesterday.
Geri Halliwell Horner, Emma Bunton and Melanie C did however make a show-stopping arrival as they supported their close friend.
Geri was joined by her husband Christian Horner who made their first public appearance since it emerged that the former F1 guru received an £80million pay off from his former employers, Red Bull.
She was dressed in her trademark white as she posed for the cameras.
Mel C and her boyfriend Chris Dingwall made a rare appearance together at the premiere.
Mel finally went public with her new man in summer last year after months of speculation about their romance.
A source close to Victoria said: ‘Victoria is so happy that the Spice Girls could be there, she just loves being with them so much.
‘They are a huge part of her journey and they are featured a lot in the documentary. It was a shame that Mel B wasn’t there but she was away, and on this occasion nobody was not there because of any in-fighting.’
Also there for the knees up, which began with a champagne reception in the opulent cinema, were Victoria’s parents Jackie and Tony Adams, as well as her sister Louise and her children.
Victoria gushed she’s ‘so proud to be with her family’ as she shared snaps from the premiere on her Instagram.
She wrote: ‘I’m so proud of what we’ve built together and to be here with my family tonight. Thank you to the incredible people that worked so hard to make this happen. I love you all so much! x’
The documentary will certainly be much talked about. During the three episodes, the former Spice Girls tells how she suffered from an eating disorder after she didn’t like what she saw in the mirror.
Also for the first time, Victoria shares her fears of how her fashion label would go bust after spending so many years in the red.
Victoria revealed she suffered from an eating disorder which she became good at lying about so she could hide it from even her closest family.
In her Netflix documentary, Victoria Beckham, the former Spice Girl confesses how she ‘didn’t like’ what she saw when she looked in the mirror so began to control her weight in what she describes as an ‘incredibly unhealthy way.’
Posh shares for the first time her torment at being body shamed, something which started when she was at theatre school when she was a teenager but she was dishonest about even to her beloved parents Tony and Jackie.
Speaking on the three part series, Victoria says: ‘I really started to 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.
‘Was I fat? Was I thin? I don’t know, you lose all sense of reality. I was just very critical of myself. I didn’t like what I saw. I have been everything from porky posh to skinny posh, I mean, it’s been a lot and that’s hard.
‘I had no control over what was being written about me or the pictures that were being taken and I suppose I wanted to control that. I could control it with the clothing, I could control my weight. I was controlling my weight in an incredibly unhealthy way.
‘When you have an eating disorder you become very good at lying. And I was never honest about it with my parents.
‘I never spoke about it publicly, it really affects you. When you’re told constantly you’re not good enough. And I suppose that’s been with me my whole life.’
Victoria, who catapulted to fame in the mid-90s with the Spice Girls, also recalls a moment when she was weighed by live on television by Chris Evans on his Channel 4 show TFI Friday to see if she had lost her baby weight just months after giving birth to her eldest son Brooklyn back in 1999.
While at the time she was all smiles, today she reveals the toll that it took on her as a 25-year-old new mum.
‘I was weight on national television,’ says Victoria. ‘Get on those scales, have you lost the weight?’ we laugh about it and we joke about it but I was really, really young and that hurts.’
Victoria’s body confidence agony began when she was just a teenager and won a place at the Laine Theatre school in Epsom, Surrey – which she reveals her parents funded by remortgaging their house in Goffs Oak, Hertfordshire.
She tells how despite her hard work she wasn’t the best dancer, or indeed singer. But she also told how she looked different to her classmates.
‘I didn’t look like a lot of the other girls,’ she says. ‘That’s where I started getting a lot of criticism about my appearance, my weight.
‘I remember the principle of the theatre school saying to me, you know, at the end of the show we are going to just fly in. “You girls can be flown in” meaning that we weren’t looking as aesthetically pleasing as some of the others, “so we’ll just fly you in the back.”
Victoria’s mother Jackie also adds that the star was told ‘you’re overweight. You’ll be at the back.’
She added; ‘It must have affected her, it’s a very silly thing to say to someone, “you’re fat.”‘
The documentary follows Victoria in the run up to her Paris Fashion Week show in September 2024 – the biggest catwalk occasion she had ever thrown.
Viewers will see how the weather left her and the team at her label on tenterhooks as they feared they would have to postpone it.
But it also takes viewers on the former singer’s journey from a Spice Girl, to a WAG, right through to the present day as a fashion designer.
It is nothing if not candid, and at times Victoria’s voice shakes as she holds back tears about some of the more difficult times in her life.
Amongst them was when her VB label was millions in the red and was on the verge of closure.
After launching it in 2008, she was repeatedly bailed out by husband David which made her a laughing stock.
For the first time Victoria tells of her upset at almost losing the London-based firm and the ’embarrassment’ it caused.
‘This business is everything to me, it’s absolutely who I am but it has been a hell of a journey. I almost lost everything and that was a dark, dark time,’ she says.