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Victoria Beckham- accident waiting to happen?

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ElfinNotSoElfin · 11/09/2011 16:12

daily mail- warning!

Ok, I love my high heels too...... but the very sight of VB carrying her tiny baby whilst tottering around in sky high platforms made me queasy and worried for the baby's safety.

VB can surely afford a super dooper-kitted out-custom designed-one of a kind buggy, no? Much safer for baby than being carried by a stick figure in ridiculously high heels! And the woman recently had a slipped disc! Urrrghh, her vanity/insecurity/attention-seeking is totally out of control!

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GenevieveHawkings · 16/09/2011 20:41

Well, let's add greed to her list of shortcomings too then shall we?

So now she's a "business woman" who has to urgently get back to work promoting her fashion line is she?

She's a multi milionaire in her own right and the child's father is one too. Yet her much-longed-for baby daughter is barely 8 weeks old and she has to be carted around by her fame and fortune hungry mother who can't even bear to take a few months off on maternity leave to nurture her? We might have known she couldn't bear to be out of the spotlight for that long - she'd shrivel and die.

Even I took 22 months off work to be with my child after he was born (18 of them unpaid) and I earn in a year what VB would spend on one of those vulgar pair of Gary Glitter heels.

With her money she could say fuck the fashion line for a season or two - or at least let someone babysit it for her.

Just goes to show how fame and fortune hungry she truly is and how she puts her public image before everything else in her life.

scottishmummy · 16/09/2011 20:45

why should she take time off work?if she like it and derives satisfaction from it
clearly she not working for money,so she works because she wants to - good for her. good to see shes driven and values her work

scottishmummy · 16/09/2011 20:47

no one complains when men go back after 2wk pat leave
returning to do some work doesnt make vb a bad or neglectful mum.at all

GenevieveHawkings · 16/09/2011 21:44

Not the old men/fathers vs women/mothers analogy again. Let's face it, who buys that one? I don't.

scottishmummy · 16/09/2011 21:48

Not the old went back to work too quick when someone else took time for precious moments analogy again. let's face it, who buys that one? i don't.

GenevieveHawkings · 16/09/2011 21:49

Truth is, if VB didn't see a flash bulb for a week she'd go into a terminal decline. And the very thought of magazines being published without a single photo of her in them would give her night terrors.

I feel sorry for the baby - despite the fact that she will never want for anything that money can buy...

scottishmummy · 16/09/2011 21:51

your dripping sympathy for vb baby is misplaced
next you'll quip why did she have baby...

GenevieveHawkings · 16/09/2011 21:56

No, I wasn't particularly hung up on the whole cliched "precious moments" thing. After my DS was born I just wanted to spend time exclusively with him without any distractions outside of home and family. I wanted to be able to concentrate all my energies and attention on him. It was important to me and it was my top priority.

I suppose other people have other top priorities, like work, money, material things and themselves and their ambitions - and in VB's case, fame and self publicity.

GenevieveHawkings · 16/09/2011 21:59

Of course we know why she had the baby - because she wanted it. The thing is that she'll continue to put herself first and the baby will have to fit in with everything else that she wants. VB will always be No.1 in VB's world.

scottishmummy · 16/09/2011 22:03

all my kids fit in around me and my work
went to nursery ft 6mth because i wanted to go back.and i dont do school drop off or pick up because im at work
its no big deal that kids fit in around existing commitments

Ifancyashandy · 16/09/2011 22:44

Here's the thing. VB (shock horror) probably doesn't design the range. She gives her approval to the designs and the company who owns the company / means of production get to trade on her name. She probably signed off on this her laptop, from the comfort of her Malibu beachside mansion. Whilst pregnant / post birth.

But, her side of the deal means she has to go to New York for a week and get photographed for the mags. She then gets to spend the rest of the winter hanging out with her kids.

Two weeks work interspersed with being at home? Sounds like bloody perfect maternity leave to me.

kerrymumbles · 16/09/2011 22:52

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scottishmummy · 16/09/2011 23:07

many designers dont directly design a collection,yes they do brand it but dont necessarily do every detail

vb is a brand and an astute businesswoman

GenevieveHawkings · 17/09/2011 17:39

Ostensibly she's quick to see how to take advantage of a situation but she's advised by others how to go about doing that. She's not clever either so I don't agree that she's astute.

In reality, she's no better than a Big Brother contestant or a washed up X Factor contestant really. Marrying Beckham and being advised to develop their so-called "brand" has maintained her well beyond her expected shelf life. I can never understand why though. They both have the charisma of a slug.

MelinaM · 17/09/2011 21:01

Grin Well said Genevieve!

Has anyone read VB's latest comments regarding Harper's 'first trip to Prada': www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2037128/Victoria-Beckham-reveals-baby-Harper-Seven-loved-Prada-shopping-trip.html

scottishmummy · 17/09/2011 23:26

as i said the more vb irks dm more i like her
oh and a wee ruddyBlush whoopsie me face doesn't make the dm the oracle of what is truthful.dm wouldn't know truth if it got uo and stoated it

but hey go right on ahead and cite and link dm as that bastion of good accurate reporting.not like they embelish or make stuff up is it

always makes me laugh the mn faux oh goshBlush apologies for dm link,as if you dont read it.

belt up

you know dm inside out because you read it and link it

MelinaM · 18/09/2011 00:19

Actually darling I'm an FT girl myselfGrin So no, one does not "know dm inside out", how very rude of you to insinuate such a thing!
Just in case you hadn't noticed this thread is founded from a 'DM link', I was merely clicking and commenting, this does not make one a reader of said rag, but merely an exceptionally bored person with a more than a little time to kill whilst waiting for the markets to open/close etc... etc...

scottishmummy · 18/09/2011 00:23

aye.sure.keep doing the wee faces Blush and protesting how you read about vb in ft...

MrsDmamee · 18/09/2011 00:32

I doubt anyone has ditched/chucked out their entire heel collection cos oh no I have a baby god forbid I wear anything other than sensible laced up clarks clogs!!!

Honestly VB is just walking from car to front row seat at fashion week. What she wears on her feet doesn't concern me.... I'm too busy looking at her cute DD and then looking at my own cute DD.

UrsulaWoleffay · 18/09/2011 00:43

Do we really give this much of a fuuuuuuck

scottishmummy · 18/09/2011 00:58

evidently.and some even link dm as if gospel

goodasgold · 18/09/2011 01:09

I think this is a bit mean. VB has had the means to have had a daughter for many years, one of my dh colleagues told him about a place in Madrid where you can chose your baby's gender, for our dc 4 if we didn't get a son.

If you wear heels your mucsles adapt and it becomes normal, no more or less likely to drop a child. I think that as a mother of four she might be more relaxed with regards to parenting, and if she is happy with what she is doing why do we need to worry about it. I mean really most of us have got more serious concerns in our lives than whether VB can carry a baby in heels or not.

GenevieveHawkings · 18/09/2011 11:10

Er, ScottishMum, I don't think that anyone here has said that the Daily Mail is the "bastion of good accurate reporting". Most people will have simply looked at the pictures of VB and her baby in the Daily Mail, formulated views based on them and expressed their own personal opinions accordingly. That's what generally happens isn't it?

Some people will have read the text too but what does that matter? Are you not expressing your own views/opinions on VB here too? It doesn't matter to me what you base your opinions on, or your sources. They are your opinions and you are equally entitled to express them as everyone else. I just can't understand why it bothers you quite as much as it clearly does that others hold views on VB that differ from your own.

I don't feel the need to use a "wee ruddy whoopsie me face" as you call it to excuse the fact that I've visited the daily Mail TV and Showbiz page either. Why would or should I? I enjoy visiting many newspaper sites on the internet and the Daily Mail is just one of them. What's the big deal?

scottishmummy · 18/09/2011 12:31

so why did you post the embarrassedBlush blush face if reading dm is no biggie? after all you're not alone reading the dm its most linked paper on mn linked and discussed daily

and you are using dm links as if its a ta-dah there that proves it...face it dm lies and embellishes for schlock value. using dm support some daft seyt of assumptions

and the more dm derides vb more i think shes doing something right and i like her

working mum,good role model. better than some of the wag hanger ons who get tans and do sweet fa else

ragged · 18/09/2011 12:46

As ugly as I think high heels are (on anybody),
As uncomfortable as I find them,
As daft as I think anybody must be to ever wear them,
As little as I care about VB or any other sleb...
If anyone is able to wear high heels safely while carrying a small babe, VB is probably that person.
So...yabu. Although I know it's not a AIBU thread, but still...yabu.