Victoria Beckham used to be so different

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I like her and think Brooklyn’s recent posts are awful.

I was looking on YouTube today and a video came up of her over the years, mainly with the spice girls and when younger. She was so funny, so cheeky and seemed so strong & confident. She did full, proper smiles and laughs, so nice to see.
Totally different to now, is it just age and we were all probably more like that in our youth?

Except NP hasn't worked for any of it. Daddy paid for it. Shes only famous because of RB. We'd never heard of her before. NP and RB are the ones desperately clinging onto a fairytale now. When it dissolves, NP will waltz back to being Daddy's Princess. RB cast aside as having served his purpose

Interestingly, apparently NP is unusually driven. Time will tell, I guess.

Who is RB?

Romeo?

Oh come on, he didn't rob her of anything. She chose to stay because they were more lucrative together

She has had so much work done to her face that she likely doesn't smile for the cameras as smiling would make this work even more obvious

I've said this before on here but I met her lots of times back in the day when our DC had a shared hobby. I'm as unglamorous as it gets but she was always very sweet and friendly to me.
No airs and graces at all, just a normal, light-hearted person.
I liked her then and I hope she is ok now.

In every photo I have ever seen of her, for many years now, imo she looks ridiculous. The choice always to scowl and never to smile (why?) and to adopt a ludicrously unnatural "model" stance put me off her. I don’t know the rights and wrongs of her argument with Brooklyn but even if he is the one primarily to blame, surely there must have been something in his upbringing that would lead to him behaving that way. And if it’s true that she did a "show dance" with him at his wedding after being introduced as "the most beautiful woman in the room", when obviously she should have contradicted the stupid announcer and said "no, that’s the bride!", then she only has herself to blame.

But why does she project that ridiculous persona, rather than the true nature you say she has, in every photo then?

Because she wants to be seen as a classy aristo. Might it be a distinction between a professional and private persona? NB: Anna Wintour & sunglasses?

Lack of confidence

I think we only see snippets of her and she had deliberately stopped smiling as she doesn’t like her smile and then it became part of brand VB.
In the Netflix she came across as quite happy and funny.
It’s painful to see what has happened with Brooklyn, it’s one of my big fears.
She looks like she is making the life she wants! All power to her. I’m the same person I was in my 20s but I behave differently in public.

I don’t think it’s nasty. Not everyone is perfect in all ways.

pp is right- she looks better in photos when she doesn’t smile. I think that’s why she doesn’t smile.

I’d be thrilled if I looked as good as she does in photos, smiling or otherwise.

Really? After all those years of choosing to be a member of a world-famous pop group? People truly lacking in confidence do not choose to put themselves in the public gaze for years.

Maybe it’s hard to have your own true self on display for the criticism of everyone.

Maybe it’s easier to have a persona and then if they mock you for not smiling/posing, you can stand normally and smile at home and not let it get to you.

To me she looks absolutely ridiculous in photos because of her expression and stance. It must just be a question of personal taste.

Staying in her marriage and keeping her family together is not dropping her drawers to pay the mortgage.

I know the prevailing opinion is that you have to leave, but it is possible for some marriages to survive infidelity and everyone should not disparage those women or men who chose to remain together. It must be hard enough without that extra judgement.
They didn’t do anything wrong and become guilty by staying.

Of course they do! It’s a very well known situation. People with low self confidence crave attention, praise and validation.

I rather look like her than plain & dumpy :)

Exactly. I think she comes across as quite shy. She's quite clearly very keen to be seen in a certain way that's at odds with her background and natural personality.

Absolutely this.

Look at some of the poor people who have gone onto reality TV shows and how they've fared.

Shy? Victoria ‘all eyes on me at any cost’ Beckham? 🤣 I’ve heard it all now.

But the point of the thread is they didn’t survive infidelity. DB is the only winner here - he has been a serial cheat - and VB has forgiven him numerous times publicly. She has decided to fuel the fake family brand to make cash - she’s been successful at making the cash but at what cost to her own self esteem over these decades and now to lose her first born in such a deeply painful and public way.

I think it’s very sad that she bore the brunt of BB tirade - when the guilty party who has managed to slither away with his reputation intact is the sexually incontinent DB. I don’t know why BB didn’t expose his Dad? I do wonder if his wife N PB has skewed it all tho - as she has a reputation as being a nasty piece of work and likely to have seen BB relationship with his mother as a threat to her fragile ego so sowed seeds of doubt in BB who then chose the wrong parent to attack. I see VB as fragile and eroded from holding up the fake facade for decades to make cash - but she must also be deeply hurt by DB and now BB. Often In dysfunctional families when the children become adults they blame the enabler often the mother - in this case VB rather than the perpetrator - maybe because they have spent their childhoods wiping the tears of the enabler rather than having a childhood by the enabler moving on.

I watched the Victoria Netflix series when it was first out and didnt warm to her, and felt she took herself incredibly seriously, and it jars how shes talked about everything she worked for and being heralded as an entrepreneur- because she didnt really start from scratch (and had a huge safety net behind her) But I do have some sympathy with her as im sure she has had an ED for decades. And she does not seem happy, possibly because she's always wanting to prove herself.

However - and I'm late to the party with this - i found her a lot more likeable, and personable, in David's Netflix series which ive only seen recently. And I sympathised a lot more that their lives seemed to be disrupted at the drop of a hat each time he moved clubs. I felt he came across as quite selfish (although I kind of realise to a degree, that is almost part of being an elite sports person) and he was very flaky about not admitting the affair.