Andy Cohen, Victoria Beckham, and John Arthur HillHippolyte Petit
They weren’t the only Beckhams in attendance. Victoria’s longtime husband, David Beckham—perhaps the most famous footballer of all time as well as the co-owner of soccer clubs in both the US and the UK—was also there to support his wife, carrying what looked like three large canvas bags filled with gifts she’d received from other attendees and sitting front row at the event. While he was clearly chuffed to celebrate the mother of their four children—Brooklyn, 26; Romeo, 23; Cruz, 20; and Harper, 14; none of whom were in attendance—he kept his thoughts about the evening close to his chest: When asked about the doc, he replied, “Ask my wife—you’re better off with her.”
Victoria had plenty to say when the main event began. After opening remarks from Wintour, who appears in the docuseries looking, as she joked, like Beckham’s “mad old aunt,” Beckham spoke with Guiducci about her rough post–Spice Girls era, her reinvention as a fashion designer, and most candidly, her yearslong struggle with an eating disorder.
“When I was a youngster, and your body’s changing and you’re going through puberty, it’s a really difficult time,” Beckham told Guiducci. “I was bullied a lot mentally and physically when I was at school.” While attending theater college before joining the Spice Girls, “I was constantly told by the staff at the dancing school that I was fat,” says Beckham. “I was at an age—it is an impressionable age, and it’s confusing and it’s hurtful.” When she joined one of the most successful girl groups of all time and married the most famous footballer in the world, she found herself living under a microscope. “I’ve never complained, and I’m not complaining about it. It is a very different time now,” Beckham said. “You couldn’t get away with weighing someone on television six months after they’ve had a baby, literally.”
