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Other Beckham gets her turn in the Netflix seat
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|October 13, 2025
“I have been so defined by when I was in the Spice Girls, which was only a four-year period in my life, whereas fashion I've been in for coming up to two decades.”
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“Up until recently, I was aware I was still fighting the preconceptions because of my previous career and always being mindful of the noise and just focusing on building the [fashion and beauty] brand,” she said. It was only recently that she felt that she could share her story without it reflecting negatively on her business ventures.
While the docuseries dodges controversial topics like David's alleged affair, a potential Spice Girls reunion and the Beckhams’ rumored rift with their son Brooklyn Peltz Beckham — who, unlike his three siblings, never appears in the film — and his wife, Nicola Peltz Beckham, it does still reveal much about Victoria and her fraught relationship with her Posh Spice persona.
Here are seven takeaways from the Netflix docuseries.
With Spice Girls, Victoria blossomed
As a young girl growing up in Hertfordshire, England, Victoria didn’t have many friends and her confidence suffered asa result.
“Iwas definitely alonerat school,” Victoria said. “Iwas bullied. I was awkward. I wasn't particularly sociable. Ijust didn’t fit in at all.”
But becoming Posh Spice completely altered how she perceived herself and was a critical step toward self-acceptance.
“It was the first time that Lever felt like I belonged. All of a sudden, I was popular,” Victoria said. “My life would be very different if I hadn’t met those four girls.”
From Posh Spice to being a WAG
Victoria is often credited for creating the phenomenon of WAGs (wives and girlfriends of high-profile athletes).
Shortly after she married David in 1999, the Spice Girls disbanded, leaving Victoria without a key aspect of her identity: “We were like a tornado, and then all of a sudden, it stopped.”
Lost without her pop-star persona, Victoria leaned into the role of supportive wife. Her public outings consisted of attending Manchester United games and shopping for designer clothes — always in view of paparazzi,
This story is from the October 13, 2025 edition of Los Angeles Times.
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