Victoria Beckham reflected on the moment she was weighed on TV during her Netflix docuseries — but the clip wasn’t included for a very specific reason.
“It was the only part of the documentary that we were asked to not include, but you can Google it and you can see me literally getting up and standing,” Victoria, 51, said during her Wednesday, October 22, appearance on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast. “I mean, it was so humiliating.”
Six months after she gave birth to eldest son Brooklyn Beckham, the former Spice Girls member appeared as a guest on British show TFI Friday. Victoria stood on a scale in front of the live audience.
She recalled feeling “very self-conscious” about the entire ordeal during Wednesday’s podcast.
“Back in the day, those things were acceptable,” Victoria added. “I suppose you know, there is that old school thought process of how quick do you bounce back to your weight after having a baby.”
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In addition to Brooklyn, 26, Victoria and husband David Beckham share sons Romeo, 23, and Cruz, 20, and daughter Harper, 14.
It wasn’t just the TV show, either. Victoria recalled being “on the front page of a newspaper” days after giving birth to Brooklyn with “arrows pointing to every single part of my body and where I had to lose the weight.” She acknowledged that in today’s world this would never happen.
Victoria also detailed her experience with an eating disorder, which was revealed in the docuseries, released earlier this month.
“I’d struggled with my weight since I was quite young. In the ‘90s, I remember, we didn’t know as much about food back then as we do now. It wasn’t so much a conversation,” she recalled. “Everybody was obsessed with fat-free, fat-free, fat-free. I remember being terrified to eat any fat.”
She was “really mindful” of food while growing up, Victoria explained.
“I think then going into the Spice Girls and having people talk about me so much and my weight — as you said one minute I was Porky Posh and then I was Skinny Posh — it plays tricks with you,” she continued. “I didn’t know what I saw when I looked in the mirror. I had no idea. You lose all sense of reality and it is so consuming. It is so tiring, and it takes over. It really takes over.”
Victoria noted in her docuseries that she “never” talked about this publicly until now.
During Wednesday’s “Call Her Daddy” episode, Victoria explained how she told her daughter, Harper, about her past struggles.
“I talked to her because I hadn’t seen the final edit until the premiere,” Victoria said, referring to her docuseries. “I was like, ‘Well at this point, if I come across as an ass, I’m an ass and I’m going and I’m gonna own it because I didn’t know I was in the hands of the editor, right. It is what it is.’ I thought that this might have been left in, because obviously I knew that I talked about it.”
Victoria “spent a bit of time” discussing the topic with Harper so she could “understand” it all.
“When you have an eating disorder, it makes you miserable. It is sad. It is lonely. It is all consuming,” Victoria added. “I was present for many years but not truly present. That’s really tough and you just gotta talk about it.”
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