Sisters but world apart

Almost identical with just two years between them,but they couldn't be more different.

- Hannah Fernando

Embracing each other in front of the camera on a family outing to Lapland UK in Berkshire, they’re the image of sisterly love. The blonde appears older and wiser, not at all intimidated by her wrinkle-free, model-skinny and vibrantly youthful brunette sibling sharing the frame. Look closer, though, and all is not as it seems. The brunette is Victoria Beckham, posing with Louise Adams, her sister who’s two years younger than her. Then again, if you’d lived Louise’s life nobody would judge you for paling in comparison to the pampered, ridiculously rich Victoria. Never mind her success in the 90s with the Spice Girls; 42-year old Victoria established a second career and got married to one of the best-looking men on the planet while succeeding at all she does.

Louise, 40, hasn’t been so fortunate. While Victoria divides her time between palatial homes in California, London and the French Riviera, her little sister still lives with her parents and four children just off the M25.

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To describe Victoria and Louise as close would be an understatement. The entire Adams clan – including parents Tony, 68, and Jackie, 67, along with 35-year-old Christian, the girls’ quieter younger brother – are a tight-knit team. But while Victoria has always looked out for her sister, life hasn’t dealt her the easiest cards.

‘Louise looks up to Victoria massively,’ says a family friend. ‘They both have very similar interests and Louise think s her older sister is an incredible role model.

‘She’s seen Victoria succeeding and that’s filled her with confidence. Louis e is a natural in the showbiz world and would turn up at parties all over the world, holding her own.