Victoria Beckham
The Spice Girl turned fashion designer, who is 40 this year, says she became an outsider because she was ambitious and focused on trying to become a stage performer.
She says, “I dreamed of being on a stage. But it was a difficult part of my life. I suffered bullying. I did not fit anywhere. I was ambitious, I made a great effort, I respected teachers and rules.”
Victoria, who joined the Spice Girls in 1994 after responding to an advert in The Stage newspaper, along with Geri Halliwell, 41, Melanie Chisholm, 40, Emma Bunton, 38, and Melanie Brown, also 38, explains, “After school I went to dance lessons and singing and acting lessons. Meanwhile the rest of the kids hid for smoking and that kind of thing. They pretended to be cool but I was not like them.”
But despite her eventual huge success as Posh Spice, Victoria, mother to Brooklyn, 14, Romeo, 11, Cruz, eight, and Harper, two, says she won’t return to sing with the Spice Girls again.
“It was an honour for me, being in the Olympic Games,” she tells Vanity Fair. “I was so proud of being British. It was the perfect moment for saying, ‘It was wonderful. Thank you very much, but I’m done.’
“Sometimes you have to know when to leave the party.”
Meanwhile, Victoria has been named as one of the most influential designers in British fashion, alongside Stella McCartney, Alexander McQueen’s Sarah Burton and Burberry’s Christopher Bailey, Marie Claire.co.uk reports.
In a new list published by manners and etiquette expert, Debrett’s, Victoria is among the 500 most influential people in Britain right now, with shortlists spanning everything from fashion, music, film, sport and charity.
The specialist title asked experts across more than 25 fields to name the individuals who are having the most impact across Britain today. And surprise, surprise, Victoria and David were top of the pack
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