Victoria Beckham opens up about her struggle with an eating disorder new revealing documentary.
In the new Netflix document Victoria Beckham, 51 year old designer discussed the body image issues that have plagued her for most of her life, starting with drama school during her time in the Spice Girls.
“When you have an eating disorder, you're very good at lying, and I was never honest about that with my parents,” she said, according to Page six. “I've never spoken about it publicly. It does affect you when you're constantly told you're not good enough, and I guess that's been the case with me my whole life.”
The spotlight only contributed to her struggles, as her weight was constantly under the microscope throughout her public career, especially in the 1990s and early 2000s, when the media and culture have been especially cruel to famous women.
Beckham recalls being called “everyone from Porky Posh to Skinny Posh” during those years, adding that she began to “doubt herself and not like herself” and began to lose “all sense of reality.”
“I mean, you know, it was a lot, and it's hard. I had no control over what was written about me, the pictures that were taken of me, and I guess I wanted to control it, you know…” she says in the doc. “I could control my weight, but I controlled it in an incredibly unhealthy way.”
Although this is the first time Beckham has openly discussed his eating disorder. it is being discussed the media's fixation on her weight is a thing of the past.
“I had ‘Porky Posh,’ ‘Skeletal Posh,’” she recalled in a 2022 interview with the publication. Fashion Australia, for People. “After I had Brooklyn, there was a picture on the front page of the newspaper pointing out every part of my body where I had to focus on losing weight.”
