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Why can't/doesn't Victoria Beckham smile like a normal natural person?

59 replies

Barginbasementbackdoor · 26/12/2018 19:22

I just don't get it. She smiled naturally enough when she was younger. It always looks so odd to me. What's going on?

OP posts:
Jaimx86 · 26/12/2018 20:20

She’s beautiful, as are her family.

SinisterBumFacedCat · 26/12/2018 20:21

Is this the thread equivalent of a complete stranger shouting "smile" at you in the street? Cos thats always fun.

I know someone who knows all the Spice Girls, Victoria is the nicest one, by about a mile apparently.

TSSDNCOP · 26/12/2018 20:21

Because it might never happen?

She knows a pap of her bent double with a belly laugh will sell squilliobs. When that happens you can be certain she’ll pocket the squilliobs.

I love VB. I bet she’s a scream in private.

chumbal · 26/12/2018 20:26

This is why!

Why can't/doesn't Victoria Beckham smile like a normal natural person?
xsquared · 26/12/2018 20:34

There was a thread about her when Harry and Meghan got married moaning about why she didn't smile at the wedding.
So now we have a thread about why her smile is unnatural. She's dned if she does and dned if she doesn't.
Leave her be ffs.

xsquared · 26/12/2018 20:34

"Damned" not dned

bobstersmum · 26/12/2018 20:39

What does it matter?

Gaeldom · 26/12/2018 20:44

She probably does in private family photos. What she does in public, meh who gives a fuck, does anyone really care if a celeb smiles in a pap pic?

pinkmagic1 · 26/12/2018 20:44

Whats wrong with her smile Chumbal? Much better than a pout!

sidesplittinglol · 26/12/2018 20:49

I think she was asked this question and she said she doesn't like her smile so she doesn't

Jaxtellerswife · 26/12/2018 20:54

This thread is the equivalent to 'smile love, it might never happen'

Dogsmellssobadbob · 26/12/2018 20:54

I think she’s great
Leave her alone with all this scrutiny.
She’s a mum of four, works bloody hard and by all accounts has a brilliant sense of humour and is a fantastic friend.

Pommes · 26/12/2018 20:57

I like that VB doesn't broadcast a great big, artificial smile for the paps. So many female celebrities succumb to the pressure to flash huge smiles when in front of a camera... nobody can be that delighted all the time.

BobbyBanana · 26/12/2018 20:58

What business is it of yours? If she was a man, no one would be telling her to smile. It would be all 'smouldering good looks etc etc"

Sexist bullshit.

BentNeckLady · 26/12/2018 20:58

I’ve just googled pictures of her smiling and she’s got a lovely happy smile Hmm

HairyToity · 26/12/2018 21:00

I think she has a nice smile too. Clearly just very self conscious.

AmIthatbloodycold · 26/12/2018 21:01

Should she smile to make you happy?

Leave her alone

TeaAddict235 · 26/12/2018 21:08

Tell Farage to stop smiling and we might have a deal

Serin · 26/12/2018 21:08

I used to live near them when they were in Cheshire and saw her a few times out with her kids, at swimming classes and soft play. She made small talk just like anyone else would and held the door open for me when I was struggling with a car seat. Always friendly and smiley and struck me as just a very nice person and a good mum.

Witchofzog · 26/12/2018 21:11

Wtf? She looks lovely smiling and not smiling but sometimes she probably doesn't feel.like smiling like the rest of us dont all the time either. Leave her be and stop judging her Angry

Almostthere15 · 26/12/2018 21:23

Maybe she feels self conscious and that's reinforced by a bunch of strangers dissecting her smile? Maybe she doesn't have loads to smile about. Maybe she has loads to smile about and chooses not to.

Is it not enough that we've had decades of strangers (usually men) telling us to smile?! Do we really have to bring it patenting sites too.

Avegemitesandwich · 26/12/2018 21:26

Sorry, is it 1999? This topic has been done to death.

I used to live near them when they were in Cheshire and saw her a few times out with her kids, at swimming classes and soft play. She made small talk just like anyone else would and held the door open for me when I was struggling with a car seat. Always friendly and smiley and struck me as just a very nice person and a good mum.

I have met her in similar circumstances and she came across as really nice and normal. She gets so much shit poor woman, and there are some total bitches on this thread.

goforkyourself · 26/12/2018 21:33

I always liked Posh, she always seemed to have a good sense of humour back in the old days.

But if you look at her now, she just seems defeated and sad. She clings on to that cheating, shallow creep who blatantly doesn't give a shit about her.

Kezzie200 · 26/12/2018 21:35

Because she hates her smile. Google it and I have sympathy for her. For us it wouldn't matter really as no one much cares. She though is all over the press.

If she doesnt like images of her smiling she shouldn't have to see them.

BettyBooJustDoinTheDoo · 26/12/2018 21:40

What on earth is wrong with her smile Chumbal? Her smile looks perfectly lovely to me.

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