Victoria Beckham’s much-anticipated docu-series finally dropped on Netflix on Thursday.
The fashion mogul, 51, is determined to tell her own story – two years after her football star husband David, 50, released his own hugely successful series.
The episodes take us inside Victoria’s career with the Spice Girls, family life, her eating disorder, and preparations for a show at Paris Fashion Week.
On Thursday, Netflix dropped a behind-the-scenes clip of Victoria promoting her new self-titled documentary.
Sitting in what appeared to be a press junket, the video features short and snappy clips of the Spice Girls star figuring out what to say to the camera.
She said: ‘It’s Victoria… So what am I saying?… Back by popular demand. It’s my time to shine.
Victoria Beckham ‘s much-anticipated docu-series finally dropped on Netflix on Thursday
The fashion mogul, 51, is determined to tell her own story – two years after England football star David, 50, released his own, hugely successful series
‘We can’t use that, I sound like a proper w*****… Mother’s going to be thrilled with the language.
‘I’ve got a few things to say about David’s documentary and the EMMY. Firstly, I didn’t win a thing.’
The clip then showed a movie clapper in front of Victoria with someone behind the camera saying, ‘Whenever you’re ready.’
The star continued: ‘Victoria Beckham on Netflix. I just don’t want people to think I’m too nice.’
‘I am the miserable…,’ she added before it cut to a clip of her standing up and bowing while leaving the camera frame.
On Wednesday, it was the night Victoria had always dreamed of as she hosted the star-studded premiere of her Netflix documentary simply titled Victoria Beckham.
Victoria and David were joined by sons Romeo, 23, and Cruz, 20, the latter’s girlfriend Jackie Apostel, 29, and daughter Harper, 14, for the celebration at London’s Curzon Mayfair cinema.
And after the premiere to end all premieres, it was only right that a lavish after-party might follow at exclusive Mayfair members’ club, 5 Hertford Street.
On Thursday, Netflix dropped a behind-the-scenes clip of Victoria promoting her new self-titled documentary
Sitting in what appeared to be a press junket, the video features short and snappy clips of the Spice Girls star figuring out what to say to the camera.
‘I am the miserable…,’ she added before it cut to a clip of her standing up and bowing while leaving the camera frame
While son Brooklyn was noticeably absent, Victoria and David were joined by sons Romeo, 23, and Cruz, 20, the latter’s girlfriend Jackie Apostel, 29, and daughter Harper, 14, for the celebration at London’s Curzon Mayfair cinema.
And after the premiere to end all premieres it was only right that a lavish after-party might follow at exclusive Mayfair members’ club, 5 Hertford Street.
But 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 her husband have reconciled that they won’t see their eldest son for the foreseeable future, he and Nicola 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.
Speaking at the premiere, Victoria thanked Brooklyn, along with her other children, for their support.
Paying tribute she said thanks ‘to my husband for convincing me and forcing me – giving me no choice, David.
‘My children, Brooklyn, Romeo, Cruz, Harper and David. Oh no, he’s not a child. It has taken this process to realise I am enough.’
On Wednesday, it was the night Victoria had always dreamed of as she hosted the star-studded premiere of her Netflix documentary simply titled Victoria Beckham
(L-R) Jackie Apostel, Cruz Romeo, Harper, Victoria and David on the red carpet at her documentary premiere earlier in the night
She added: ‘This process really forced me to reflect on my journey and it has been emotional.
‘It’s been a year of intense therapy and it really made me realise a lot. I want to thank my mum and dad, my brother and my sister. I’d like to thank the Spice Girls, I love you.’
Victoria later 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’
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.
Victoria was a vision in white at her event
‘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.
Victoria revealed in her Netflix doc that she suffered from an eating disorder which she became good at lying about so she could hide it from even her closest family
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 (pictured during her Spice Girls audition)
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.