What is going on with Brooklyn/Harper Beckham?

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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.

Word reaches me that the paps are there all the time, regardless. It's their job.

The Beckhams are just a slightly classier version of Katie Price - everything is for sale.

Yes that’s not a surprise (what a job) - it’s the laws around under 16s that show the beckhams up

Why? It was all over his insta that he was in New York.
Anyway, as previously pointed out we know it was the Beckhams as they will have signed the release forms as Harper is under 16.

That’s a deprecate issue. Press involvement suggests some level of parental manipulation of a situation. That doesn’t mean a child should be blamed. It’s a load of nonsense to accuse a 14 year old of not respecting his decision to go no contact with their parents. She’s a child. His beef is with their parents, not with her. What does the PP expect - a child to get independent legal advice on decisions their parents make?

Their despicable parents are shit stirring for the media again. They haven't learnt a thing from Brooklyn losing his rag with them.

And I realise they have private jets but is that poor girl ever at school or just having out with mates? It seems she's just dragged around for publicity. I hope she goes rogue in a few years and tells them where to stick their Backgrid "paparazzi" shots.

No one’s blaming Harper, they are blaming Victoria and David’s who clearly orchestrated this scenario in order to make their own son look bad.
It’s backfired.

Of course it’s not her fault - her parents are using her in the same way BB complained of

I have a dd similar age and i hate seeing the pics of harper all the time. It isn’t right.

The worst thing is that, despite the whole drama with Brooklyn they seem to have virtually no self awareness, or even a pause to wonder whether what they have done is actually the right thing. and have just ploughed on with the next child (Harper).

No-one is blaming the 14 year old child! Quite the opposite.

I'd very much like to see someone step in a protect her, quite frankly, from this hideous exploitation by her awful family.

I am sure that, whichever side your own sympathies lie, they are all finding it painful.

Families falling out is normally not anybody's first choice.

He might have just not been home. People do go out. Knowing his family were in town he may have made sure to be, and Harper missing him was just unfortunate fallout.

Usually there are two sides to these stories - much as people like to read them as a goody-baddie fairy tale.

You can't really know that they didn't ask her not to.

ETA and given the narrative around how they control their DC it might have been harder for them to say absolutely not.

We just don't honestly know.

If she wants to go to university, I wonder if they'll actually let her - not much money to be made out of her as a student.

You're very naïve if you think because she's 14 years old she doesn't understand her parents obsession with brand Beckham and with publicity.

After 14 years she'll be a complete expert.

And I didn't say he turned her away, as far as I'm aware he wasn't even in when she turned up for the photo opportunity?

I do too. The thing I find oddest is that she is always dressed in revealing satin petticoats. My daughter wouldn’t be seen dead in them. They aren’t fashionable, but, more disturbingly, they look like 20th century undergarments. They are wholly unsuitable for children.

Someone does this on ALMOST EVERY THREAD, apparently under the mistaken illusion they’re the wag of the century.

It’s been done to death and it’s not funny.

The poor girl needs rescuing from her parents sadly. It's becoming clear that David and Victoria appear to be anything but decent parents who put their brand above their childrens' needs and happiness. The outfit she was wearing was just so inappropriate for her age. No wonder Brooklyn cut ties - I hope he's found great peace away from such toxicity.

It is often quite funny. It's timing that makes or breaks it. This one I thought was quite fresh.

Yes, but there’s absolutely no acknowledgement of everything brand beckham has given him - including his wife. He might not have been willing to make those sacrifices, and he wasn’t given the choice, but I haven’t seen him acknowledge or shy away from the benefits that being a Beckham has brought him.

I think lots of girls are wearing them, but agree the bra/ no bra situation is all a bit precarious with some of them.

The Tom Bower book on the Beckhams is very interesting

She was there because her Father had a Star outside the Chinese Theater. She was dressed up for that ceremony.

And how exactly is a young adult supposed to magically reject their entire childhood at age 18 when there hasn't been any transparent and obvious abuse?

I think you're very naive to the reality of growing up in an emotionally unhealthy but superficially generous household.

Put it another way - if you were a multi millionaire would you bring up your kids in private luxury, or would you think it was a lovely and fantastic idea to exploit them to lie about your happy family life so that mummy and daddy can be billionaires and just pay for your therapy later?

Missing school for her parents work events isn’t great

I strongly disagree.

If the siblings and other family members are being used by the parents as ''flying monkeys'' to try to guilt trip the person who went non contact into changing their mind, then that person has no choice but to also distance themselves from these other relatives because their boundaries are not being respected.