Victoria Beckham’s new Netflix docu-series, “Victoria Beckham,” just dropped, and she’s gotten really personal. In the three-part series, she opens up about the eating disorder she used to suffer from back in her Spice Girls day, calling it “incredibility unhealthy.” Keep reading for more information.
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Victoria Beckham Talks About Her Eating Disorder In New Documentary
One of the scenes of the documentary has Victoria dressed down in a gray t-shirt and speaking directly to the the camera. "'I really started to doubt myself and not like myself and because I let it affect me, I didn't know what I saw when I looked in the mirror. Was I fat? Was I thin? I don't know, you lose all sense of reality. I was just very critical of myself. I didn't like what I saw. I have been everything from porky posh to skinny posh, I mean, it's been a lot and that's hard."
"I had no control over what was being written about me or the picture that were being taken and I suppose I wanted to control that," she continued. "I could control it with the clothing, I could control my weight. I was controlling my weight in an incredibly unhealthy way. When you have an eating disorder you become very good at lying. And I was never honest about it with my parents."
Victoria Beckham Opens Up
Until now, Beckham has never really addressed her eating disorder. "I never spoke about it publicly, it really affects you," she explained. "When you're told constantly you're not good enough. And I suppose that's been with me my whole life."
She went on to recall when she was weight on live television by Chris Evans on his Channel 4 show TFI Friday to see if she had lost her baby weight just months after giving birth to her eldest son Brooklyn back in 1999. "I was weighed on national television," she says. "Get on those scales, have you lost the weight?' we laugh about it and we joke about it but I was really, really young and that hurts."
