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Am I the only person who thinks Victoria Beckham looked better in her early Spice Girl days...

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isittoolatetosay · 30/10/2023 23:39

...before all the weight loss, then she has since?

I don't get why she's so celebrated as a style icon for being skinny. She was lovely and had beautiful facial features in her early fame days

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diol · 31/10/2023 08:04

Catch yourself on, OP. Most people will have looked better, plumper of face, more youthful, 20-30 years ago!

happyl · 31/10/2023 08:03

both Mel C and Geri have spoken about their eating disorders. When they were in the thick of their disorders I remember friends bemoaning the fact they weren't as skinny and holding their spice girl figures up as the ideal shape. When my own daughter was in the middle of an eating disorder people all around us told her how amazing she looked. Despite being very poorly and not having had a period for over two years. There's extremes of weight, on both ends of the bmi scale, which are just unhealthy. That's neither skinny nor fat shaming.

IncompleteSenten · 31/10/2023 08:01

I think she looks nice then and now.

Safiey · 31/10/2023 07:59

Conflicted since I have a history of eating disorders and, whatever happy face you put on for others it’s truly truly miserable. From what I’ve read about VB she is very controlling of her diet, and if she’s working hard to be so thin then it’s not pleasant for her. Oh yes, you can be funny, witty, etc when on the spot, on stage in company, it’s the rest of the time that SUCKS. Going to bed hungry, denying yourself, counting calories. I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy. The only positive I ever gleaned from it was huge amounts of awed praise on my looks… yup being skinny did that.

underneaththeash · 31/10/2023 07:56

Wolvesart · 30/10/2023 23:52

It worries me they they are presented as such successful types. 3 boys left private and expensive education and not a university degree in the offing. Her dress sense classy, her children not so much

I don't think they went to selective private schools - the non-selective ones are about providing a broader curriculum and allowing children to achieve their potential.
My daughter is unlikely to go to uni, she goes to a great private school, where she's happy and thrives and they get everyone through their GCSE's even when they have SEN.

I think she looks great for her age.
You can't compare pictures of someone from that long ago, she's bounf to have looked better in her 20's.

Lobelia123 · 31/10/2023 07:53

That may be, but I think she is passionate about fashion and to be very thin displays her clothes better. Whtever the case, its her choice. I will say that her skin looks AMAZING - a hundred times better than when she was young - I love that, good on her.

smilesup · 31/10/2023 07:52

Maybe if women's bodies weren't subjected to constant critiques by endless sources, women wouldn't be made to feel shite about their bodies. What a fucking nasty thread.

ArethaQ · 31/10/2023 07:49

The poster isn't saying she looked better because she was younger, she thinks she looked better because she was a healthier weight. I don't buy into all this 'everyone looks better at 20 Vs 40'. It's ageist and really not the case.

cookiechipchop · 31/10/2023 07:47

I think she is a beautiful woman either way, truly stunning

Melonmango70 · 31/10/2023 07:43

How about we don't judge other women for ageing 30 years?! I was a size 10 at 25 and thought I was "fat" just because I hated myself - I didn't need the likes of us judging me, but hey, I bet that is the reason I felt "fat" and insecure (as if "fat" was a (negative) description of my personality thanks, Women!) I got fit during lockdown and I had already lost 2 stone (my choice, I'm only talking about me here), and I feel better than ever, but my goodness, who are you to post questions about VB and how she looks or should look?

Teddy65 · 31/10/2023 07:39

Lampzade · 31/10/2023 07:37

Why is it always women whose looks are critiqued.
Why not focus on David Beckam’s looks.?
He looked better twenty years ago.

Nah, he has also aged like a beautiful wine. Both gorgeous.

Lampzade · 31/10/2023 07:37

Why is it always women whose looks are critiqued.
Why not focus on David Beckam’s looks.?
He looked better twenty years ago.

Sundance03 · 31/10/2023 07:35

Skinny shaming at its finest, I've a very similar build and shape to VB except am shorter. I do a lot of sports. I am actually so fed up of people commenting on OW bodies..... Its literally no one else's business.

SunshineAutumnday · 31/10/2023 07:30

Dibbydoos · 31/10/2023 07:19

I think we need to stop judging women on the basis of kooks.

End of.

I really like VB as a person, she always comes across as a typical brit with common sense and a sense of humour.

Same here. I've also read she's got an amazing sense of humour. Love her style.

Yellowishstone · 31/10/2023 07:26

Just don't comment on strangers appearance and make judgements about how they look.

CiderJolly · 31/10/2023 07:24

It is a bitchy thread and you should care, I’m assuming you’re a mum? Would you like people talking about your child like this? I’m sure Victoria Beckham is used to it but it doesn’t mean it’s right. You’re just adding more shite into the world with this thread.

She was beautiful then and she is beautiful now.

Dibbydoos · 31/10/2023 07:19

I think we need to stop judging women on the basis of kooks.

End of.

I really like VB as a person, she always comes across as a typical brit with common sense and a sense of humour.

Unitedthebest · 31/10/2023 07:15

Then don’t do the big documentary 🤷‍♀️( and I’m a big Beckham fan)

Biasquia · 31/10/2023 07:02

I am a couple of years younger than VB. she looked better than I did twenty years ago and she looks better than me now. Nothing has changed there.

theduchessofspork · 31/10/2023 07:02

Well she lost all that weight in an era where being very thin was the thing

I don’t think her being very thin has much to do with her being a style icon now - it’s about what she wears and how she wears it, and her look having got embedded in the culture over the years (like say Anna Wintour).

PrincessScarlett · 31/10/2023 06:58

Shutthedoormargaret · 31/10/2023 06:43

I do wonder if she would have lost so much weight if it wasn't for the pressure of the 90s and 2000s culture. If her eating (if true) habits are a personal preference then that's her choice, but I can't help but feel it may have been a result of the body shaming of that time. She did indeed look beautiful in that before picture and if it was taken today, would be praised and admired.

There is a video on insta/tik tok that keeps doing the rounds of clips from the 2000s of women being shamed for their weight/bodies in the media.VB is quizzed by chris Evans on TFI Friday I think about being back to her pre pregnancy weight and asks to put her on the scales. It's bloody shocking (but also explains why I've felt fat my whole life despite always being a healthy weight).

Completely agree. I think the Spice Girls were the one if the first girl bands that the press and wider society obsessed about how they looked and they were under an enormous amount of pressure to look right. Despite the girl power message they were meant to be projecting. Mel C has spoke at lengths about her eating disorder and how she was constantly called the "ugly" one of the group so had to control her weight at all costs.

Castlerock44 · 31/10/2023 06:58

Not a single "celebrity" takes up my head space. I have zero interest in people I don't know. Hopefully this obsession we have with "celebs" will die a natural death.

The sooner we realise they're no better or worse than any of us, the better.

fuckssaaaaake · 31/10/2023 06:58

Wolvesart · 30/10/2023 23:52

It worries me they they are presented as such successful types. 3 boys left private and expensive education and not a university degree in the offing. Her dress sense classy, her children not so much

Wow. Nasty

InsomniacA · 31/10/2023 06:58

@isittoolatetosay : you are a terrible person.

Princessconsuelabananahammock9 · 31/10/2023 06:54

This thread is icky.

We should not be picking apart women's bodies.

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