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Vicky Beckham

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Lilacwine1 · 19/05/2018 10:34

AIBU To think Victoria Beckham is a right mardy, stroppy looking mare. Anybody see the way she was looking out the corner of her eye at the crowds. Not a hint of a smile.

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metalmum15 · 22/05/2018 20:25

I do wonder how much longer they can carry on tbh.

HerMajestysSecret · 22/05/2018 20:57

I was watching the highlights on the BBC iPlayer and there's a shot during the cello bit where David looks at Victoria as if to share a reaction or catch her eye or something and she is head down, staring at her feet looking murderous. You can see he sort of sighs and looks away.

HerMajestysSecret · 22/05/2018 21:02

I suppose it must sting to be the less popular half of a celebrity couple. Did you see when David stopped for a photo with someone from the crowd (during the walk into the chapel) and Vicky sort of loitered in a resigned way as if she's used to it. It must hurt.

I still find it hard to believe she didn't know she was looking so miserable. I think I'd have to actually try quite hard to look so moody on a sunny day outside Windsor Castle!

Dancingtothebeat · 22/05/2018 21:54

Bet they've announced the split by the end of the year. She looks exactly how I felt just before xh and I split. It's not rbf, it's pure misery.

Also reminded me of Charles & Diana when they did that ‘the glums’ tour of Korea just before they split.

If they do split I hope he treats her with respect rather than having a new younger model within a few weeks.

He’s made enough of a fool of her already.

derxa · 22/05/2018 22:19

Did you see when David stopped for a photo with someone from the crowd (during the walk into the chapel) and Vicky sort of loitered in a resigned way as if she's used to it. It must hurt. That girl was one of the Manchester terrorist attack victims. Please be a bit more aware.

HerMajestysSecret · 22/05/2018 22:27

Yes, I know exactly who that person was, thank you. It doesn't change my point.

chavtasticfirebanger · 22/05/2018 22:31

I agree HMS. Doesn't matter who it was, it was about him, again.
And the terror attack was awful, but the point wasn't about that at all.

SaucyJack · 22/05/2018 22:31

I didn't know who she was either Derxa.

VB did her brand no favours there. It was bad enough watching the footage of her stalking off scowling when I thought the little girl was just a bystander.

David may well be an arsehole behind closed doors, but he puts on a good show.

EachandEveryone · 22/05/2018 23:39

Dont they all though?

RachelTeeth · 23/05/2018 00:03

Thread where people are trying to argue that women are decorative objects who should look appeasing/appealling at all times because that’s what we are for-squirting out babies and looking pretty.
Woman bored by extravagantly long wedding day and facing 100,000s of people analysing her face and body and clothing and marriage and career history-why isn’t she fuckin beaming though?!

MsGameandWatching · 23/05/2018 00:27

If I had her money and four lovely children I'd be beaming all day, every day. They'd have to give me plastic surgery to remove my smile 😁

AntiqueSinger · 23/05/2018 01:29

I personalky think she just believes in her own hype.

When she was just a member of SG she was always smiling. When she initially got with Becks, again always smiling.

Then she started to become noted for being a fashionista. And that's when the dramatic slimming, b implants etc started.

I think the constant scruntiny of "what is Posh wearing?" Made her neurotic about her image, and now she is always in Vogue pose. It's the classic chin slightly tilted at an angle, one leg slight forward, chest up, resting face pose.

She takes herself faaar to seriously and has only got worse when she became a 'designer' with her own label. She tries hard to look like a miserable but chic Anna Wintour. I don't think she can bear to be caught out by the cameras in an ugly or untidy, or random chance pose. I think she is possibly (possibly) a bit OCD about controlling how she is presented and perceived by the world. Everything about her and brand becks must be just so.

I do hope the rumours are unsubstantiated cause that will only be adding to her troubles. Poor Girl.

MistressDeeCee · 23/05/2018 01:38

Probably fed up re knowing bitchy wannabe psychologists would be ripping her to shreds before the wedding was over. As they do at every event. What's to smile about? If she'd smiled the wannabes would have said it was false anyway.

I wonder if men have this type of discussion about other men

Yorkshirebetty · 23/05/2018 06:16

Nobody is being ripped to shreds. VB stood out because of her demeanour. Everyone else, going to a happy event on a glorious day looked happy or at least pleased to be there. Someone looking like that stands out.

GreatDuckCookery6211 · 23/05/2018 07:36

I think you're probably not far from the truth there AntiqueSinger. On view = downcast/serious face and away from scrutiny = relaxed and her real self, as we saw at the wedding for example, when she knew the world was watching her she looked sad and serious but inside the church while talking to friends she was animated and laughing.

AuntyJackiesBrothersSistersBoy · 23/05/2018 08:00

It’s not in the same league but I was married to a very attractive man who did some modelling. At first, I loved the attention but it did start to wane when we’d be say, on holiday and he’d stop traffic and women would want to be photographed with him. I spent a lot of time standing aside, trying to smile, whilst he’d be posing with coach parties of Italian ladies in the queue at the Eiffel Tower (or some other venue)😐. He was a lookalike for a celeb so attention was ongoing and a bit wearing after a while.

AuntyJackiesBrothersSistersBoy · 23/05/2018 08:02

Oops, my point being, it IS hard to be the A.N.Other. Even though VB had her own, lesser celebrity status.

EachandEveryone · 23/05/2018 08:09

Maybe she’s trying to be like Anna Wintour?

cherrytrees123 · 23/05/2018 09:08

The thing is, however difficult her life is and whatever is going on for her, it is just incredibly RUDE to turn up to a high profile wedding like that with a massive scowl on her face. She didn't even look around her, just looked completely up herself. She may not be up herself, but it's just basic courtesy to smile and try to look interested even if she isn't. If she couldn't manage that, she should not have gone.

dawnmist · 23/05/2018 09:36

I agree, whatever's going on in your life, most people if attending a wedding manage to put on a cheerful face. But let's face it, when has she ever looked happy. I just think she's one of life's natural miserable people. If she isn't, who DOES qualify for being miserable.

IrmaFayLear · 23/05/2018 10:53

I thoroughly agree with EachandEveryone. She's thinking if it worked for Anna Wintour it'll work for her.

Complete cack from RachelTeeth. She's a celebrity fgs. And she did not find fame thrust upon her. If she wanted a quiet life she'd keep out of the public eye and shield her dcs too.

Agree that it is not cool, it's rude to attend a wedding with a right face on. What if everyone had looked like a wet weekend? What if all the people posting that you don't have to look cheerful had had 30 VCs at their own wedding scowling away? (Btw, can you imagine when VC is a mil ?! )

RoseWhiteTips · 23/05/2018 11:03

The decision never to smile was an ugly one. She looks cold and unhappy.

Davespecifico · 23/05/2018 11:03

Even if she had had a row before the wedding, has anxiety or whatever, it’s mystifying that she would take the gloss off someone else’s big day.
She’s an adult, surely she can control herself for the few minutes she’s on film.
The only alternative explanation I can see for her odd facial expressions and gait is that she genuinely believes she needed to do an appropriately solemn look as befits a celebrity of her stature at an important occasion.

caperberries · 23/05/2018 11:11

I saw this picture of her smiling. Perhaps it's me, but I don't find it flattering. In terms of facial aesthetics, her 'grumpy' face is more attractive - but it makes her look unhappy.

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As for DB, those dyed/pencilled-in eyebrows look absurd... he's starting to remind me of Liz Hurley-era Shane Warne...

GladAllOver · 23/05/2018 11:13

Even if she had had a row before the wedding, has anxiety or whatever, it’s mystifying that she would take the gloss off someone else’s big day.

Did she really take the gloss of someone else's day? She was just a guest among many others. The wedding was not about her.

It's more likely she was miserable because she wasn't the centre of attention.