Former ‘Spice Girl’ Reveals Hidden Eating Disorder: ‘You Become Very Good at Lying’
Victoria Beckham reflects on nearly two decades of body image challenges shaped by public scrutiny and conflicting feedback on her weight, revealed in her new Netflix docuseries.
- On October 9, Victoria Beckham premiered the Netflix three-part docuseries revealing her lifelong battle with an eating disorder, now available to stream.
- After the Spice Girls split, Beckham said public criticism and 1990s body expectations left her losing touch with reality, as contradictory feedback about her weight contributed to her struggles.
- She recalls being weighed on national television six months after giving birth to Brooklyn and said she became adept at hiding the disorder, never honest with family.
- Beckham hopes her honesty will help women facing similar struggles, and advises calling the National Alliance for Eating Disorders at +1 662-1235 or texting ALLIANCE to 741741.
- Contextualising her story, the timeline moves from Sir David Beckham noting that TV criticism of women's weight was once accepted to Beckham's shift from pop fame to fashion entrepreneurship at Paris Fashion Week.
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Victoria Beckham has spoken openly about her struggles with an eating disorder in a new Netflix documentary, “Victoria Beckham.” The former Spice Girl star opens up about her struggles with body image and eating after the famous group split in 2000. She describes the period as “extremely unhealthy,” admitting that the disorder made her feel disconnected from reality. Victoria Beckham “When you have an eating disorder, you become very good at lyi…
Victoria Beckham opens up about struggle with eating disorder
The fashion designer and former Spice Girl gets candid about life and career in her eponymous new Netflix docuseries.Dave Benett/Getty Victoria BeckhamVictoria Beckham gets candid about her decades-long struggle with an eating disorder in her revealing new Netflix docuseries.In the self-titled docuseries (out now), the fashion designer and former Spice Girl, 51, speaks openly about her struggle with her body image, sharing that it worsened after…
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