Victoria Beckham recently discussed the pressure she has been subjected to throughout her career.
Lady Victoria Beckham last year opened up about the unrelenting pressure she endured over her weight and looks. The celebrated fashion designer remembered a pivotal moment when she was asked to step on scales on television merely six months after giving birth to her eldest son, Brooklyn, and the lasting impact it had.
Talking in her Netflix series, which premiered in October 2025, the 51-year-old said: “‘Get on those scales’ on television. ‘Have you lost the weight?’ You know, we laugh about it and we joke about it when we’re on television. But I was really, really young, and that hurts.
You lose all sense of reality because I let it affect me and really started to doubt myself and not like myself. Simply put, I’m very critical of myself. What I saw wasn’t what I liked.
“I’ve been everything from skinny posh to pork posh posh.” It’s been a lot, and that’s difficult. What was being written about me or the pictures being taken was not my control. And I suppose I intended to control that.
According to Surrey Live, she also added at the time: “I could control it with the clothing. I could control my weight and I was controlling it in an incredibly unhealthy way … it really affects you when you’re being told constantly you’re not good enough.”
In her early years, her musical career with the Spice Girls, and her preparations for a significant fashion show at Paris Fashion Week, Lady Victoria’s most recent three-part Netflix documentary, “Victoria Beckham,” explores her early years.
Her husband, Sir David Beckham, shared her sentiments, noting that it was frequently accepted to criticize women for their appearance in the 1990s and 2000s.
There were many things happening in television that won’t happen now, that can’t happen right now, according to Sir David in the episode where: “People felt it was okay to criticize a woman for her weight, for what she’s doing, for what she’s wearing, for what she’s wearing.”
He later explained how this had an impact on their lives and said, “My Victoria that I knew sits at home in a tracksuit, smiling, laughing, and having a glass of wine that started to go purely because she was being criticized.
On October 9, 2025, Victoria Beckham aired on Netflix.
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Source: Mirror
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