To feel sorry for Brooklyn Beckham?

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I just do feel a bit sorry for him. He's completely out of touch with the real world obviously, but he's so young and so gormless. But seems so determined to be famous in his own right, despite no specialist skill set. I wonder do famous parents ever encourage their children to go to uni and get a real job? Or is that not an option? There are plenty of fulfilling jobs he could do, teaching, nursing, even volunteering ( as he clearly doesn't need the money)
I feel bad for him as he gets mocked online, but he still seems determined to put himself out there.
Money aside, I do feel sorry for the children of spectacularly talented parents, it must cast a long shadow. ( I repeat, money aside...😅)

I’m sure a v famous celebs (Gordon Ramsey maybe) said he refuses to give his adult children hand outs recently. Gordon may be a bit of a prick in his TV shows but him and Tana really do seem like excellent parents.

@KettrickenSmiled I am so with you. My friend (the Mum) I have actually known for more than 50 years. But she is not the person I knew before she came into money and got pathetic with her kids! And I hate the snobbery too, we grew up together so don't pretend it's normal to despise Aldi because of the 'sort of people' that shop there! (I wish I was making this up, it was actually more rude)
The one the same age as my DC wants to be 'an entrepreneur' because 'he is a free spirit and will never work for anyone but himself.' That was said 10 years ago, it ain't happening if you can't cope with a shift at a pub!
Sadly my friend pretends they are all making it on their own... not sure how, given they have all been gifted flats worth £400K plus each! I bite my tongue so hard it hurts and sadly we are losing contact... hardly surprising.

Maybe because I have seen the damage that can be done with kids showered with money (my friend's kids) and no purpose in life, I do wonder what the Beckham children will end up doing and whether they will ever have their purpose in life.

Working for pay as your ‘purpose of life’ is pretty limiting and tragic! In fact working for money if you don’t need to is pretty pointless all round

Gordon and Tana are markedly more intelligent than D and V so it is expected that their children would be higher achievers. Even judging by the vocabulary they use, thinking skills displayed by GR and the attainment of wider family members, their children have the edge. There isn't much D and V can do to change that. They probably have tried schools emphasizing x or y and tutoring but what can they do?

This is 100% on him he has more opportunities then most and if he's genuinely interested in become a chef he needs to go to college to pursue that and I'm sure mummy and daddy will buy him a restaurant at the end.

But he's not "working" is he?

Working implies applying for a job, competing for it & being assessed on talent or potential. Unless he's keeping something unaccustomedly secret, all he's been doing is parading his latest hobby in front of a camera, & expecting celeb status to do the 'work' bit for him.

He should have had plenty of opportunity to try himself out without camaras on his every move, & that's all down to his parents' exploitation of their offspring as Brand Ambassadors. But he's old enough to have woken up to the fact that the world he moves in is totally fake. It obviously suits him not to look outside it, indeed to marry back into it, & probably just perpetuate the exploitation onto any kids he might produce.

I read an interview with BB once, and when asked what his goals were as a chef he answered that he wanted to have a branded cookware collection. Not create the perfect dish or open a successful restaurant, just to be a brand.

Also, it's not just being given a lot of money and having a super wealthy lifestyle, it's the unhealthy expectation of being famous and having status with little work or talent.
I wonder if he genuinely doesn't know how to live a life out of the public eye.

I saw the IG story of him making a small plate of truffle pasta. The value of the truffles he put in was possibly over thirty quid. He was too tone-deaf to understand

Even worse... he said... 'you can never have enough truffle'. Ouch.

I don’t think anybody watches his tutorials to learn how to cook and the truffle ingredient was too good a gift for the mockers to ignore. V and D Beckham come from normal backgrounds and got where they are through hard work, talent and a degree of good luck. It’s a shame they haven’t passed down their work ethic.

I think Philip Jones (Dragon's Den) does something similar. I'm pretty sure he said he's "matching" what they earn/save, so if they want something, he'll chip in half the cost if they pay the other half. Seems a very sensible way of doing it really, so they can benefit from their Dad's vast wealth, but also have to experience the work ethic of earning their own money.

Wish I'd read this before rambling on less incisively just now.
Exactly what I was trying to convey, cheers newname. 😀

I don't think he ever had the capability/creativity to become a professional in any of those fields he has tried. The sorts of jobs he would be matched with if he were not a Beckham (supermarket work, caretaker, junior marketing) he would never accept after living in luxury since birth.

My son also requires 2 to 1 round the clock care.

I just wanted to say hello from one mum to another. Xxx

I'll stop being horrible & nasty about vacuous parasites when they start paying proper taxes, contributing hard extra cash to public services, & generally thinking about the less fortunate instead of competing with other nobheads about whose got the most expensive stuff & biggest insta following.

I don't know anything about Melanie Chisholm's kids, or Emma Bunton's, or even whether they have any. It's quite possible for those who have been a passing pop culture phenomenon to raise their families in relative privacy, should they choose.

But it's hard for any child whose parents are money spinners and whose entire family name is primarily a brand rather than a private relationship. The same is true of the incredibly rich influencer parents in the states, Ryan's world being a notable example. His family are swimming in money, but the exploitation of their child is something I consider reprehensible.

The biggest case-in-point is the Mountbatten-Windsors. It's especially hard on those (the majority of that family) who have no discernible talent, burning vocation or real aptitude for anything.

Yes, rich people's problems and all that. But I have to think this would be a really unfulfilling and limited life that ultimately brings little good to those who live with this supposed privilege. Of course none of this is the children's fault. But, as with anything else, you are in control of how you respond.

The problem is that the careers he’s gone in for are all the glamour ones -the sort of thing a primary school pupil might think of. There’s no realism behind them. Some children can make their childhood dream of becoming a footballer or ballet dancer come true, but they are in the minority, and they need to work hard at those hobbies for years in their teens to stand any chance. BB didn’t even finish his photography degree.

@Theemptychair23 and @DesertRose64
I think that victim mentality has taken hold so much that even those with every chance and every opportunity can inspire pity and feel sorry for themselves. I despair at the celebrity culture at times.
Best wishes to you both 💐

Unfortunately, Beckham/Kardashian/Sussex are brands which used to be people. They don't ask you to love them.
They ask you to notice them, click on their content, discuss them, you can love them or hate them, they don't mind as long as you keep talking about them online.

I do wonder what Brooklyn's in-laws think of his entrepreneurial "careers" and whether they are disappointed in their daughter marrying someone with no apparent talent in any of his choices and just spends his time on social media sites for the likes.

Good points.

There's a fair bit of stunted thinking on this thread. You mean you can't feel sorry for someone unless they are being abused or living in dire poverty?

Everyone has mental health problems from time to time in their lives. Can't you feel compassion for that? How tragic.

I have never once seen a video of Brooklyn Beckham doing anything. I couldn't identify him from a photograph. I don't spend a lot of time on the internet, Mumsnet aside.

I feel sorry for anyone and everyone who thinks life should be lived in public, particularly online. People who seem particulaly damaged by this thinking include Britney Spears, Jesy Nelson and Alice Evans. It can be so toxic.

There are some awful comments on this thread. How would the people commenting on his looks feel if people were saying these things about your early 20’s DS? He can’t help how he looks or how academically gifted he is.

Finding a career and your path in life is hard enough for anybody without the big expectations and having to do it in the public eye. I worked in three completely different and unrelated jobs in my twenties before deciding what I actually wanted to do and nobody judged me for it.

From the bits I’ve seen of the family on social media they seem genuinely supportive of each other. I’m sure I read years ago that at least one of the boys had normal teenage Saturday jobs.

He was an average footballer Ha ha ha ha!

For all you lot know he could have some learning disabilities or mental health issues and here you all are berating a young man who clearly comes across as being directionless or untethered .