Victoria Beckham grabs the chance to tell her own tale

Now here's something you might not quite believe about Victoria Beckham, glam Spice Girl turned high-profile fashion designer: At theatre school, they purposely put her in the back row. Because she was too heavy.

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“It was really difficult,” she says now of the memory from her youth, sipping a sparkling water in a Manhattan hotel in between work engagements. “We were all judged on how we looked. I was young. I had bad skin, my weight was going up and down, I had really lank hair.”

Beckham was also bullied in school and told she was a bad learner, revelations that come in a new documentary, “Victoria Beckham.” The three-part Netflix series traces her career and especially her ascension in the fashion world — building up to a grand Paris runway show at a palace in front of 600 people. That 2024 show — with a rainstorm threatening to scuttle the whole thing — is presented as a career pinnacle for a designer who spent years proving herself alongside giants of the field, showing she wasn’t simply a celebrity slapping her name on a label.

The other Beckham documentary appeared only two years ago. Why did you feel the need for your own?