Victoria Beckham: Document reveals fighting with body image and food

Victoria Beckham (51) is considered a successful fashion designer and style icon. But behind the shiny facade there is a story full of pressure, self -doubt and strict discipline. A new Netflix documentary series that will be released in September is now also moving into the light of the less glamorous side of her life.

tells the three -part production with the simple title “Victoria Beckham” not only about her rise from “Posh Spice” to the celebrated designer, but also of the pain that life in the spotlight left. Especially in the 1990s, when the Spice Girls were at the peak of their popularity, Beckham was mercilessly reduced to their appearance by the media and the public. Comments about their weight were part of everyday life – up to the moment when she was put on a scale shortly after the birth of her first son in a British TV show in front of the camera.

This permanent view from the outside meant that Beckham strictly controlled her own picture for years. Discipline, sport and an extremely limited diet became part of their everyday life. Even husband David (50) once joked that his wife has been eating the same meal for almost a quarter of a century: grilled fish with vegetables. What sounds like an iron consequence, however, had a serious background – it was Victoria’s attempt to regain control of something that was taken over and again in public: her body image. She rarely makes exceptions – Tequila once described her as her “only calorie sin”.

In the new series, Beckham is so vulnerable as it is rarely before. that tears flowed when shooting – an unusually open side of the otherwise controlled four -time mother. For the spectators, this should be tangible which load it meant to be under constant observation for decades.

In addition to the personal insights, the Doku also illuminates Victoria’s professional path. After the Spice Girls 2000 had died, it initially faced a fresh start. The entrepreneur, who presented her first collection in New York in 2008, became the pop icon. Her label developed into a fixture in the fashion calendar, but had to survive financial thirst again and again. It was only with its beauty line that a real upswing has succeeded in recent years.

The Netflix documentary “Victoria Beckham” is scheduled to come to Netflix in September. The award-winning Netflix documentary “Beckham” (2023), who focused on the career of the football star and the marriage of the two, already demonstrated that the Beckhams can capture an audience of millions with insights into their private life. At that time, Victoria surprised many spectators with humor and openness – for example when she spoke about the stressful headlines to alleged affairs. The new series now focuses exclusively on it and tells its story from a very personal perspective.