What’s going on with Brooklyn Beckham - contd…

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All very sad especially at Christmas.

Holly Branson went to medical school and qualified as a doctor.
Don't think she spent long working as one though. I believe she works for her dad now.

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Loving the drama tbh

Not a billionaire but one of Jamie Oliver’s kids is a nurse.

One of Kerry Katona’s kids from her first marriage went to medical school in Ireland iirc.

The Dragon’s Den billionaire Peter Jones pays his kids as much as they earn in a job. So if his child earns 40k then he gives them 40k too. IIRC he offered to triple (or more) their salary if they picked a career like nurse, social worker etc that is low paid for the responsibility. If his kids don’t work then in theory, they get zero from him.

Isn’t one of Bill Gates’ daughters an Olympic equestrian?

Tbh I don’t really think it’s anyone’s business no one knows what has gone on behind the scenes. I do wonder what will happen once Brooklyn has a child think it will hit Posh very hard

Agree. My hunch is they are already pregnant hence the blocking - also wouldn’t surprise me if older girlfriends of the younger boys got pregnant any day now ….

To be totally honest though, if I had a super rich family, would I slog myself out in a “normal” job or would I indulge my pleasures and interests in a soft and comfortable life, flitting from interest to interest and not really worrying about being successful at one thing?

In the olden days plenty of people from wealthy families did just that - travelled through Europe picking up artefacts and having portraits painted, developing niche hobbies, patronising the arts etc.

If I was a Beckham, no way would I do a proper job 😄😄

I'd be an influencer, 100%

Springsteens daughter is an Olympic equestrian and his son is a firefighter.

Being occupied & purposeful is the key to happiness & being content.

Surely that’s the worst of all jobs. The downside of being famous for a reason is that people are judging you for other things. Never more than now with social media. Selling stories about you or being friends with you for reasons other than liking you. If you are an influencer everything is scrutinised. I worked for a famous person as a nanny for a year and it was mental. It’s like a big cloud hanging over you because there is a lack of control over what external people are going to say about them at any given moment.

I agree why would you voluntarily put your DC or yourself in the stocks to be judged by randoms who are irrelevant in your life. Inevitably the anonymous negative abuse online makes the most noise and impact. Sometimes it’s an occupational hazard to be in the public eye MP, sports person etc - others you need to court an audience etc eg entertainer and with that inadvertently pick up the negatives. But to voluntarily choose to put your DCs in that line of fire is at best negligent and at worst exploitative and abusive.

Exactly the rich elite are quiet on social media. Billionaire families generally looked down. There’s good reason for that.

Yes to be wealthy and anonymous must be the dream.

For some ego gets in the way of this, but definitely, yes.

I wonder what trajectory & life Elton & David’s boys will have? Piano lessons for now?

Worshipping her is part of the problem with the estrangement in our family.

SSIL is with someone he worships and as soon as she realised how much power this gave her, she used it to separate him off from us all.

He has changed so much as a person since being with her. He is unrecognisable. He is nothing more than her mouthpiece.

I agree ‘worshiping’ is so unhealthy for any relationship. From a psychological point of view I suspect BB is in a ‘re-enactment’ dynamic where (unconsciously) he is trying to save and soothe his own mothers trauma that he was exposed to and unable to achieve as a child via his relationship with NP-B. He’s found someone emotionally familiar to his childhood mother bond - intense, dissatisfied, demanding and needy. She will drain him dry - but VB playing tug of war from the other end won’t help. They all need to invest in their emotional futures with privacy and therapy. Playing this out on a global stage is grotesque and will damage all of them so deeply. There are no winners here. Surely they have enough billions - how many pairs of Armani knickers can you wear at once - unless it’s all grandiose, delusional, fragile egos running the show. I wish them peace. DB is the villain but hes bank rolling them so……

Sorry to hear. Is it obvious why he ‘worships’ out of interest? Low self esteem?

Interesting post which may well be nail-on-head. BB is quite different from N P-B’s ex. I do find it a bit odd, if there are no fertility issues, no baby as yet. Nicola’s a bit older…

I’ve seen that with a family member and also a friends son. There seem to be so many of these type of women these days. Of course it works the other way as well. I have a brother in law who married a woman who completely controls him and alienated him from his whole family for years and years. My friends son alienated his mother because of his wife who doesn’t want her mother in law in the house or to interact with her grandchild. It’s so sad.

Why are there more about now? What’s the cause - a power balance in looks? Age?

When Brooklyn was 15 and still at Arsenal's academy, he was quoted in the media as saying "I just want to play football". Then Arsenal released him, that dream was over and his parents encouraged him into photography. Romeo and Cruz left Arsenal's academy soon after that.

I assume that photography was a real hobby for Brooklyn at the time, so a good idea to pursue it or to use it to motivate him through sixth form. Unfortunately, that included The Book, for which he was profoundly ridiculed and publicly humiliated - I have no idea why they thought that was a good idea. That part (the book) actually looks like pretty shitty parenting to me. Along the lines of "any publicity is good publicity" - you can do that with your own work but you shouldn't do it to your children, even if they want it!

Five years later... Romeo is 18 and leaves school and David... buys him a football club (he went straight into the reserves of David's club). Now I know David was in talks over a club in the MLS for years, and it just happened to work out in time for Romeo, but I remember thinking at the time, my god, what a punch in the gut for Brooklyn. Of course, there are probably good reasons why David didn't offer this path to both his sons: I assume Brooklyn was out of shape by then (I assume Romeo had at least continued playing at school) and maybe Romeo really was the better footballer (no evidence either way). And of course, Brooklyn didn't say anything at the time but I do wonder if this caused him to look back and notice all the little, unfair things that happen in any family with multiple children and his mind made a narrative out of it. At least, it wouldn't surprise me!

So, if Romeo did take up with an ex and / or if his parents did disrespect Nicola at the wedding in some way, then that was probably just the final straw in a long history of real and imagined slights. He just had enough and when he was in a position to quit, he quit.

(I also don't understand why people are so ready to blame a woman when a man dumps his family. There is plenty of evidence that some men are happy to cut contact with their own children for selfish reasons. Why would cutting contact with their parents be any different?)

All this makes sense. NP’s wedding messages though & what we know of her fam - in wanting a new start & a clean break and/or fresh start he may have replaced one toxic, controlling situation for another.

Maybe they just don’t want kids? Not all of us do.

I wouldn’t call V&B thick as they’ve both obviously been very shrewd with their respective money-making ventures, but I think they were very short-sighted to push their children into the public-eye from the second they were born. I can understand a z-lister wanting to publicise their child as a desperate attempt to make money, but if you’re already a multi-millionaire why not do everything in your power to give your child a private life? It is doable - I don’t even know what Holly Willoughby’s children look like for example - so why not try to give them some privacy? Then when they hit 18 maybe they’ll want to splash themselves all over social media, but at least it’ll be their own choice and they’ll be old enough to consent. The Beckham boys all seem so aimless, and Harper’s now paraded around at fashion events dressed like she’s in her 20s, and flogging her mum’s makeup on Instagram. Just all seems a bit sad really.

No, very true & it is far from a given either. The sibs - NP’s - feel family orientated.