After captivating audiences in her husband’s Netflix series, Victoria Beckham steps into the spotlight with her own. Victoria Beckham, a three-part limited docuseries now streaming, chronicles her journey over the years—from her beginnings as a Spice Girl to the creation of her namesake fashion brand. As she shared with ELLE in the October 2025 cover story, she was initially hesitant about being the focus of a documentary, but David eventually persuaded her.

“I genuinely couldn’t understand why anybody was that interested. I love what I do, but I was a bit shocked,” she told ELLE. “But throughout the process, I’ve really enjoyed it. I love the fact that I have an opportunity to shine a light on our industry—how serious an industry it is.”

While much of the series centers on her fashion career, it also explores her personal life and how she copes with public scrutiny. Here are some of the most striking revelations.


She endured harsh, sexist media attacks

Even if you recall her frequent appearances in the press during her Spice Girls and WAG days, seeing the media coverage compiled in the series is startling. It features a string of clips with male commentators hurling insults, calling her “just a common little bitch” and saying she had “kind of a used look.” One remarked she’d fit in well in Los Angeles, the “land of size-zero beach bodies and botox.” Another shockingly said he hoped she “eventually starves to death.” The commentary is deeply disturbing.

Her mother, Jackie Adams, appears in the series, revealing she kept every newspaper mention of her daughter, even the painful ones. “It was very hard, reading bits in the paper about you, because some of them were vicious, weren’t they?” Adams says. “A lot of the stuff was really, really bad.” Beckham responds that her family’s unwavering support helped her persevere. “I think it’s having such a strong family unit that always used to help me get through those things,” she says.


She struggled silently with an eating disorder

Reflecting on her youth, Beckham opens up about body image struggles that began in childhood and were intensified by her experiences at theater school, where she was often placed at the back during dance routines due to her size.

The pressure only grew when she became a pop icon and young mother. She recalls being “weighed on national television” when Brooklyn, her firstborn, was just six months old. Although she laughed along at the time, she now admits, “I was really, really young. And that hurts.”

Unable to control the media narrative, she turned to controlling her body, which led to unhealthy behaviors. “I could control my weight, and I could control it in an incredibly unhealthy way,” she says in the series. “When you have an eating disorder, you become very good at lying. And I was never honest about it with my parents. I never talked about it publicly. It really affects you when you’re told constantly, ‘You’re not good enough. And I suppose that’s been with me my whole life.’”


David Beckham funded her brand, but financial troubles required outside help

Initially dismissed by the fashion world, Beckham eventually gained respect as a designer. However, her business faced serious financial challenges. The company was “millions of pounds in the red” with “so much waste,” she reveals. Though David supported the venture financially, she felt uneasy about repeatedly asking for help. Eventually, he told her they needed external investment.

That’s when she turned to David Belhassen, founder of NEO Investment Partners, known for boosting brands like Valextra and Vuarnet. Upon reviewing the company’s finances, Belhassen discovered “losses, losses, losses, losses. Never made a profit,” he says. “Frankly, I had never seen something as hard as that to fix.”

He nearly passed on the opportunity—until his wife, a fan of Beckham’s brand, encouraged him. Once involved, he uncovered excessive spending, including £70,000 (,990) on office plants and £15,000 (,900) for their upkeep. “And that was just the beginning,” he notes. He helped streamline operations while preserving Beckham’s creative vision, which she welcomed. “I took it on the chin,” she says.

In hindsight, she attributes part of the issue to the “power of celebrity” and “people being afraid to tell her no,” but she also acknowledges her own missteps, saying she wants to “hold my hands up and be accountable for things that I have done and I should have done differently.”

By Erica Gonzales