What is going on with Brooklyn/Harper Beckham?

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https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/harper-beckhams-devastating-gesture-after-37292907.amp

AIBU to feel sorry for Harper? If BB has an issue with his parents it shouldn’t mean that he also stops talking to his siblings. It’s equally as sad if the parents did choreographed the letter/visit.

I think this post makes some really good points - but that it would have been possible to do this and still allow the children more privacy and, crucially, more control. Brooklyn knows he hasn't got anything to sell but his name - which is presumably one of the reasons he was so angry about his name being trademarked by his parents, not him, and about having so little choice about how and when his name was sold. Creating a skincare brand for Harper would be one thing, but if it is entirely within her parents' control even when she's an adult then it isn't actually anything to secure her and her future. Lots of celebrities have this problem of trying to pass on their lifestyle and opportunities to children who rarely have their parents' talents and they normally manage to sort it through nepotism and investment without selling the kids from birth.

I do think that the idea that it would definitely have been within the Beckham kids' gifts to have gone into amazing unrelated careers because they could have had expensive educations is a bit fanciful. You can pay for really expensive schools, loads of tutoring, etc but still end up with really mediocre results - see, the royal family. The kids were always going to end up in showbiz related paths where their name carried them forward, but there were ways of doing that that didn't leave them so exposed from so young.

I'm giving ten yo me a high five today for having thought that the Girl Power craze was no more than obnoxious branding.

Throwing a woman under the bus because she had the audacity to marry your son is the opposite of girl power. It's nasty misogynistic behaviour which is entirely unsurprising from those two.

I guess they think by attacking her they can claim not to be attacking him and if their marriage fails they can say ‘told you so’

i know NP has a bad rep but the beckhams have been whipping that up. Given the example of marriage he has had I’m not sure what they expected - couple who stay together come what may and put that first. Why are they so surprised he put his marriage ahead of his relationship with his parents?

by all accounts he’s a really sweet guy and probably makes a good husband!!

Too stupid to see that all they are doing is pushing him further away.

The more they attack him and her especially the more they prove him right the more he needs to protect her.

A good parent wouldn’t want him attacked in the press they certainly wouldn’t be feeding stories but we know they are clearly lacking as parents. All about the brand 🤑🤑🤮

Very relevant today lol

Surely BB knows by now that he just needs to keep silent, they will keep raging for a bit and perhaps make a mistake and out themselves. Silence is hell for a narcissist.

There are masses of kids of famous people who do normal non showbiz jobs. Roger Taylor's daughter is a doctor, Harrison Ford's son is a chef. And if the Beckham's kids think they couldn't possibly lower themselves to do something conventional because of their unique surname then perhaps they should look at Sam Springsteen (son of that barely known singer, Bruce) who is a firefighter.

I think one of the Olivers kids has gone into nursing. The Ramsays have a marine and a police officer (i think). It seems all their older kids have finished college and Uni. Even the Rooneys look like they're prioritising education for their kids. All of the above will benefit from their parents money but will have been able to grow up out of the spotlight, have a group of college and uni mates and some kind of qualification.

D&V don't seem to have considered a stable education for their children, display them all over social media and it'll end up with them all looking a bit daft, at best. A real waste of their potential.

Lots of "Nepo" babies are hiding in plain sight because their parents were lower profile, and could provide them with great opportunities.

Timothee Chalamet is a good example - his parents were rich and connected, but not household name famous. He had a wide, liberal and doubtless expensive education, mingling privately with other Nepo babies.

There was no reason they couldn't have done this for their kids.

The financial reasons are also solid bullshit, take a look at Mackenzie Scott. She gave away solid billions from her divorce settlement and now she's richer. Purely off stock.

It really doesn't matter what BB is like. His parents' choices are still vile and self-serving.

This is just a theory. More a question really. For those who know narcissists personalities really well, is there any mileage in the idea that maybe David (I don’t know why I think it’s coming from him more than her!!) would almost have not wanted his kids to be well educated? Because then there’s a risk they would think they were ‘better’ than their parents who really didn’t progress through education in anything like the normal way (I assume David barely attended school beyond a certain age due to his football career)?

Just a thought because as PP have pointed out there are plenty of hugely rich and famous people who have prioritised their kids’ education. Indeed pretty much everyone I’ve ever encountered who is from a self-made background themselves in whatever field is extremely serious about giving their kids the traditional educational opportunities they may never have had themselves. Not just sending them to glossy expensive schools but really taking education and academic opportunities/betterment seriously.

But maybe for a narcissist this is too dangerous?

Great question. Trigger warning. SH.

As the scapegoat, I was sent to a fee-paying school and self-harmed, I still do, due to the bullying I endured. I assume, knowing what I now know, it was solely for the public image of the narcs (But we do love her, look at what we give her) I hated every moment, I wasn’t heard or acknowledged in that institution either.

Whereas their son who was allocated the role of the Golden Child was sent to a grammar school and thrived, loved it, did incredibly well at a Russell Group uni, and when I last heard a decade ago was on a six figure salary.

Me? I’m on higher elements of PIP, take 10 prescribed meds a day, have multiple autoimmune diseases (which I am convinced are down to a dysfunctional nervous system) and worked as a cleaner.

I wanted to be a teacher but got told “Those that can, can, those that can’t, teach”. Then I wanted to be a midwife and I got told I would be too sensitive (I wonder why 🙄)

Narcissism is so deep and dark and personal in a way words don’t explain it.

I would certainly consider this as a possibility. My own narcissistic mother really pushed education when I was younger because I was gifted and that got her a lot of attention. Then when I turned 16 she put unbelievable pressure on me to not do anything after GCSEs, to the point that she actively sabotaged me getting into sixth form college and then physically stopped me attending one of my A level exams. I never understood why she switched her attitude until you said this.

V sorry this happened to you. Preventing you from going to an exam is just dreadful.

Friends said it was appalling that BB was saying such things about a young girl who just wanted to see her brother

the manipulation is off the chart!!!

but will have been able to grow up out of the spotlight, have a group of college and uni mates and some kind of qualification.

I think that's the difference.

Anything Brooklyn has tried to do has had a fanfare.

I mean the photography-a book & a shoot without finishing the course(iirc).

It's easy to see why he gave up if he was told connections were enough!

Making money from his name might be all he is capable of & it's easy money.

Is this his first DoorDash gig?

He's partnered with doordash for a while

You make interesting points. I think status has always been something important to David, hence the desperation for the knighthood and so on.

I remember an interview Victoria gave when Brooklyn was barely a toddler saying that when Brooklyn could drive his his first car would be an old banger. And David had overridden her and said no, his first car will be a Rolls Royce.

Sure, they absolutely could choose to do 'normal' jobs and bolster their normal incomes with inherited money. If they wanted to be really wealthy, though, something where they could leverage their names would be the most viable option by far. That doesn't have to mean something really high-profile - lots and lots of celebrity kids end up on the production/industry side of film and music so they aren't actually on screen.

Thanks.

So an American company that he has already done ads for has done an ad referencing the World Cup which is currently being held mainly in America?

Got it!

Clearly unreasonable and he only did it because his wife told him to 🙄

Funnily enough I was thinking along these lines about the Beckham’s kids’ education.

Yes they sent them to expensive schools but I get the feeling that education wasn’t strongly encouraged as they didn’t want them being more educated than them as that would make them start questioning their role within the brand and having a lightbulb moment.

Again with their expensive schooling - I can’t understand how not one of the 3 boys went to uni. You would have thought D & V would be proud as punch to have university educated children.

It’s actually feel sorry for Romeo within that family. He doesn't seem to have a role. He’s classic middle child and talent wise seems washed up by his mid 20s - traipsing across the world following his parents whilst they’re collecting their accolades and him cheering from the side like a performing seal. Is that his life?

Oh well at least he’s rich!

It’s actually feel sorry for Romeo within that family. He doesn't seem to have a role. He’s classic middle child and talent wise seems washed up by his mid 20s - traipsing across the world following his parents whilst they’re collecting their accolades and him cheering from the side like a performing seal. Is that his life?
Oh well at least he’s rich!

£440 less rich now after being convicted for using a mobile whilst driving. Still gets his name in the papers I guess. And we know that in Beckham land ALL publicity is good publicity.

Agree with this.

A lot of IQ and academic ability is genetic. Even with an expensive education you can’t make a silk purse out a sow’s ear. Especially when you spend a considerable amount of time not actually in school but traipsing around the globe. I mean it’s June now, which is generally end of year exams and where is Harper? And let’s face it they may have gone to private expensive schools but it doesn’t mean they went to the best schools. No idea where they did go (not Habs 😆) but would they have passed the Common Entrance exam for somewhere like Eton, Marlborough?

I guess they could have gone to a lower rated uni if they wanted to but yes I think education wasn’t well thought of by any of them.

Cruz and Romeo were at a good school - as is Harper.

Brooklyns education was quite interrupted

they would have been better sending them to the American school tbh