“When you have an eating disorder, you become very good at lying,” she says. “It really affects you when you’re being told constantly that you’re not good enough… That’s been with me my whole life.”
Her issues were not helped, also, by the fatphobic world of the ’90s that she was building a career in. She recalls being weighed on live TV six months after giving birth to Brooklyn. “I didn’t like myself,” she says of the impact this had on her.
She is clear about the misogyny she faced within the fashion industry
Victoria reflects on the ways that her success was warped as she started to make strides with her Victoria Beckham fashion line, with the media speculating as to whether her mentor, Roland Mouret, was actually designing her clothes.
“Of course, there’s a man behind it, not a silly little popstar,” she says of the speculation at the time.
Her fashion label was spending £85,000 a year on plants
The final episode of the documentary focuses heavily on the financial problems that Victoria’s fashion line encountered, with losses reported of up to £66 million, causing David to be unable to keep funnelling money into the business.
She eventually persuaded businessman David Belhassen to come on board as an investor and advisor to turn things around. One soundbite stood out over all others: Belhassen’s shock when he discovered that £75,000 a year was being spent on plants to be decorated around the business HQ, with an additional £15,000 paid to someone to water them. A rather extravagant example of Victoria’s spending.
Victoria found it hard to ask her husband for money when her business was failing
The former Spice Girl opens up about how difficult it was to go to David for money, and he is also honest about the worries he encountered as the business went further and further into the red.
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