What is going on with Brooklyn/Harper Beckham?

I can’t stand Brandy Melville. I’ve been to their shop twice now and said never again. Clothes stacked high, utter chaos, teenage staff, the clothes are so poorly made they won’t last a season. I’ve told my girls that I’d rather pay the difference between a Brandy Melville item of clothing and something from Subdued (another teenage favourite but better made and the clothes come in more than one size).

Everyone who can't see why he is NC with all his family when the problem is with the parents is so lucky. I can see why he would not speak to his siblings. All I can think of is how difficult it was for him to have Harper be collateral damage and remove himself completely. It is the hardest thing even if it means he chose himself and his own wellbeing, as he should. Harper is being used by her parents and he knows it.

Yes I think it's a privacy thing too. In fairness, you might be right about the bias cut satin, but lots of young girls are wearing bias cut and similar strappy tops and dresses in cotton. Have a look at brands like Brandy Melville.

Though I agree with you: there is something particularly negligee-like about bias cut satin. I am often on these threads encouraging ops not to wear it for formal. I don't actually think it even flatters so can't see why you'd risk the lack of privacy as it shows every bump, ripple and movement. I really don't like the look of it.

Same here but I'm a very nosey person 😂

To cut off siblings and other family members when your problems are with your parents is childish and hurtful
But sometimes necessary.

I’m going to make a provocative suggestion.

David and Victoria Beckham are very lucky to be so rich. They are both prepared to work hard and are tenacious in what they pursue, but VB has no natural talent ( she admits this herself in her book learning to fly) and DB’s only talent is being very good at football, combined with the happy fortune of being good looking. None of their children appear to be talented sportspeople and even if they were, very few make any real money from it. Neither VB or DB are known to be particularly intelligent. They have four (?) children who they will understandably want to maintain in the life style of their peers, the only lifestyle they have known. They probably have legitimate doubts about their children’s ability to earn through their own efforts the sort of wealth they would need to keep that lifestyle. Very, very few people could. DB and VB probably also have an eye on ensuring their grandchildren and future generations are also kept wealthy. I suspect BB’s wife’s family ensured she had a cast iron prenup to protect their family wealth of that relationship breaks down. The Beckhams have no business to pass on to their kids in the way other wealthy families have.

In this context I can quite understand why they are keen to keep bringing in the cash through Brand Beckham, and keep building that. They may see it as a way of securing their children’s financial future. VB and DB don’t need the money but their kids need a huge amount of cash to maintain that lifestyle and social group for themselves and their own children, and need something to keep earning cash during their own lives. Media attention can do that for kids with nothing to sell but their name.

in thar context, getting their kids to perform brand Beckham could be seen as akin to people like us getting their kids to do homework. Not much fun but something that will hopefully secure their financial future.

These people live highly unusual lives. There may be reasons behind their behaviour that are more than self interested greed or vanity of DB and VB.

And

Generally I don’t give a shit but reading the article it seems that this whole thing was a tacky publicity stunt. I fully blame the parents for that btw, not the child. Just googled and apparently Harper is 14. Her parents should be protecting her, not setting up this kind of bollocks.

And as expected. My Google popped up about it

Yes the star is paid for and will have been arranged when it was to time with the opening USA game. I understand they also have to bring some famous friends along.

she didn’t need to be there

I agree none of the prom pictures I saw in the last two years locally have silk nighties it’s all proper dresses.

I don’t think I’ve ever in real at any parties seen a teenager or even in their 20’s wearing a silk nighties.

*around here

All the girls at round her wear floor length dresses with more structure. But there a big difference between a teenage prom and a daytime event.

They've been very fashionable for a while now, especially at proms.

I'm not keen on them though.

The Beckham's will be the masters of their own downfall and the sooner that happens the better.

There is no way they didn't know Harper was going to do that visit. They would have had to have the driver and security ready. The fact they told the press and agreed to her pap walk is disturbing. But then this is the family that will turn everything into a media circus including private moments like this and their children's baptisms, his ridiculous 50th birthday celebrations plastered all over the news. Their fake displays of love and Victoria and her new face are so transparent.

They could have said no to the photos being used but they'd rather paint their eldest son in a bad light for ignoring his little sister even though he wasn't home.

The serial cheating man also makes a mockery of his knighthood. How he has the nerve to use 'Sir' alongside the likes of Sir Chris Hoy or Sir Kevin Sinfield.

I did have some sympathy for D&V when this “estrangement” first blew up but now I can see Brooklyn’s point.

Apparently, you have to pay for a Hollywood Walk of Fame which is clearly what’s happened here, why else would an ex footballer from the UK be awarded one? Either that or it’s a stunt to drum up interest in the World Cup which most Americans are not interested in.

D&V have then used their 14 year old to do a very performative pap walk when they knew there was no chance Brooklyn would open the door, therefore instantly making him look bad. Who would do that to their own children?

Don’t get me started on Harper’s inappropriate clothing or that they are gearing up for her to be an influencer with her own skincare brand. They are a pair of shameless grifters, good on Brooklyn for breaking free.

Perhaps she's a flying monkey?

A single layer of thin bias cut satin? I’ve not seen any 14 year olds wearing anything like it. I’ve seen strappy satin tops with lace trim, usually worn by slightly older teenagers with clashing bra colours. Harper doesn’t need a proper bra for support, but she does need the sort of privacy provided by a first bra or a top that isn’t as non-existent as the satin she was wearing. With so much choice, a revealing baby pink petticoat seemed very odd.

You are twisting what I said. Nevertheless, I disagree. She only knows the world she has grown up in. She has never experienced family life in a private family where events are not shared for public consumption. She doesn’t know that it’s not normal for successful parents to broadcast a curated version of their lives to a public who are apparently willing to pay for it. Describing her as an expert make her sound calculating, which is absurd. She is a child and this is the only life she knows.

I do find celebrities sharing their children’s lives, or even introducing them to the media for consumption as they reach maturity, very disturbing. I can see how this would negatively affect some offspring, such as Brooklyn. I know nothing about his wife, other than the fact she’s a daughter of a billionaire who managed to have a private childhood, so the comparison must be palpable. The Beckhams could have had an affluent life without selling themselves as a commodity, but it would have been much more ordinary. Instead, they mix in the circles of the international super rich and they sell themselves to achieve it.

Do these decisions bother their other children? We dint know. Maybe not. Maybe Harper isn’t even aware of Brooklyn’s opinion on the matter. We don’t know that her brother’s public letter has been shared with her. No doubt the split will have caused a lot of pain, so her only experience of it will be feeling and witnessing the pain it has caused those around her. Even super rich people feel ordinary emotions.

Is that you, David?

I strongly disagree.

If the siblings and other family members are being used by the parents as ''flying monkeys'' to try to guilt trip the person who went non contact into changing their mind, then that person has no choice but to also distance themselves from these other relatives because their boundaries are not being respected.

Missing school for her parents work events isn’t great

And how exactly is a young adult supposed to magically reject their entire childhood at age 18 when there hasn't been any transparent and obvious abuse?

I think you're very naive to the reality of growing up in an emotionally unhealthy but superficially generous household.

Put it another way - if you were a multi millionaire would you bring up your kids in private luxury, or would you think it was a lovely and fantastic idea to exploit them to lie about your happy family life so that mummy and daddy can be billionaires and just pay for your therapy later?

She was there because her Father had a Star outside the Chinese Theater. She was dressed up for that ceremony.

The Tom Bower book on the Beckhams is very interesting