what’s going on with Brooklyn Beckham?

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so he’s done a vow renewal after only getting wed in 2022 and none of his siblings or parents were there, just seems to have been organised by his billionaire wife’s parents. It looks like a very deliberate fuck you to his family. What can they have done to deserve such shocking treatment? It’s bizarre. And let’s hope the marriage to the (reportedly prickly, hard work) billionaire works, so he doesn’t have to come crawling back to Mum and Dad………

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14992137/Nicola-Peltz-Brooklyn-Beckham-share-pictures-butterfly-themed-vow-renewal-afterparty-parents-took-centre-stage-guestlist-included-Harvey-Weinsteins-ex-amid-family-feud.html

She was on a salary. Albeit a v.large one

Jackie?

Agree. Also there can't really be a 14 year old in the land who wants to go to a party wearing nearly an identical outfit to their mum, surely?!

I know. He’s been brought up with such distorted values, as if it’s only surface appearance and ‘being seen’ which has any value.

That photography book was a case in point - no way should he have been enabled to get that published, it made him a laughing stock when he was on the brink of adulthood. He should have been allowed to just develop his interest in photography in private. For all we know, the offspring of other celebrities have their own hobbies, but they arent pushed into the public arena and then judged for them.

I feel sorry for BB because he’s a product of a dysfunctional upbringing.

@AnAlpacaForChristmasPleaseSanta

Indeed and it's debatable as to whether it was a little old .

@crossedlines agree...do a private book for parents Xmas present but your correct why think he was good enough to publish it. .also would have been an excellent deflection tool to keep in his back pocket.

He had a book launch party for it too 🤦.

I have always admired Kate moss for keeping her daughter private until 16. Actually she may have done 1 or 2 things a bit earlier but she was kept entirely private. She was part of one of my kids wider social circle and was very much part of the crowd doing normal teenage things without anyone peering over her shoulder

Yes. It was marriage that suited them both. Can't deny she used her influence and money in very positive ways. Maria Callas was an issue tho.

I think you’re right.NP wouldn’t want to look like VB.

They’ve both super skinny (?)

Loving your kids is the easy bit, having healthy boundaries, modelling good values, supporting them with kindness but not total indulgance, giving them focused and postive attention, nurturing their talents but being realistic about what they can achieve, now those are the hard parts. Being a parent is such a challenge, I look back on my parenting and I got so much wrong as I muddled along like most of us do.

Yes, 100%

I imagine it’s a very rare parent who doesn’t love their child. Loving them is such a primal instinct. It’s everything else that comes with parenting that’s tricky.

no parent is going to be perfect, and there’s no one right way, but I think the Beckhams got it spectacularly wrong by plastering their children over social media and moulding them to fit the brand they want to market. I think it’s made it nigh on impossible for any of those kids to have genuine agency over their life.

Talking of harper I remeber what I thought was odd about the 50th pics ...all those matching satin dresses.

I thought that the two girlfriends looked similar to VB!

I’m assuming the dresses were a VB design and she was “showcasing” her designs?

I’ve been contemplating this. Obviously I don’t know the details but it seems BB is not happy with his “toxic” family for unknown (to us) reasons. Maybe they’re good reasons, maybe they’re not.

I have a Dd the same age as BB (my only) and I must admit at times I’ve subconsciously struggled to treat her as the adult she is. It’s been hard as I find she sends out mixed messages, lives at home, no job, expects me to bankroll her (she has been at uni, worked a year, got made redundant and going back to uni next month, so not being useless). She obviously wants to be independent and autonomous and I get that ….at her age I was married and had her! But to me I probably hadn’t appreciated that she was no longer 16/17 as nothing seemed to have changed (she lived at home during uni).

im also a fixer and organiser by personality and do have a tendency to take over and organise stuff…..which I am working on. I think at times Dd has found me to be over involved. So we are both working on boundaries. So when she went for a look round universities recently for postgrad stuff I’d drive her there but I’d go shopping while she looked round. In the past I’d have gone to the talks with her (I’d still have loved to). She thanked me for not assuming I was welcome and muscling along! 😁

I wonder if without realising the Beckhams have been too controlling of Brooklyn. What they might see as a close, loving family , he might feel suffocated/controlled by? They do seem a very enmeshed family. Even the photos, where VB in the past has been positively draped over Brooklyn.

And maybe currently BB doesn’t have the maturity to realise his parents were trying their best even if they got stuff wrong. I’d like to think in the near future they can sort this out.

@Tipeetommeey years ago I walked into a pub to eat near Hampstead heath and as I walked in with my friends we were struck by the most beatiful baby. As we stood waiting for attention we could see who mum was. Km

@YanTanTetheraPetheraBumfitt probably all true but imagine if your business depends on your daughter's compliance as well !

Who is KM?

Kate Middleton?

She’s referring to Kate Moss

Kate moss I think. Was mentioned upthread about not thrusting her daughter into the public arena

Who cares what’s going on with him?

Km ...Kate Moss

The Beckhams put their children in the spotlight from infancy, and turned the family into a brand for profit. Plenty of celebrities ensure that their children grow up in relative privacy, so it's possible. They don't seem to value education in the family; if Brooklyn had gone to college, he would have been more independent and confident, and wouldn't have felt compelled to marry a wealthy woman at such a young age. He's trying to assert an identity apart from his family and his wife likely sees the Beckhams as rivals for his attention.

He did go to college, in New York no less. Not lasted a year.

someone pulled some strings to get him into parsons