Ex-Spice Girl Victoria Beckham reveals struggle to reinvent herself in latest Netflix series

Ex-Spice Girl turned designer Victoria Beckham describes herself as someone who “desperately wanted to be liked” in a new three-part documentary about her life.

- STORY: HELEN ROWE / AFP

Victoria Beckham and David Beckham.

In the Netflix series that launched on Thursday, the 51-year-old once known as “Posh Spice” recounts her battle to reinvent herself as a fashion designer after the British girl band split.

“People thought I was that miserable cow that never smiled,” she said, referring to her straight-faced public persona.

Performing had been her “dream”, she said, but when the band came to an end she found fashion to be a “creative outlet”.

Beckham, who frequently becomes emotional in the series by director Nadia Hallgren, said she struggled to establish herself as she came up against a world that said, “she’s a pop star, she’s married to a footballer, who does she think she is?”

Former Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour admitted to initially having her own doubts.