Victoria Beckham

Profession: Style icon
Place/Date of Birth: Goff's Oak, Hertfordshire, 17 April 1975
Associated with: David Beckham, Emma Bunton, Geri Halliwell, Mel B, Mel C

Posh makes it to cover of Vogue - Mar 7 2008
Victoria Beckham has made it onto the cover of Vogue.

The Spice Girl and aspiring fashionista is featured dripping in diamonds on the front of the April issue.

Vogue has devoted 12 pages to Posh and given her a makeover reminiscent of a Cecil Beaton portrait. She's dressed in a delicate, handpainted tulle gown by Dolce & Gabbana.

Beaton famously created the designs for Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady. Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman said: "The pictures quite coincidentally echo some of Cecil Beaton's famous portraits for Vogue during the 40s, and demonstrate the Eliza Doolittle quality of Victoria veering from mannered hauteur to the trashy sexiness of her exposed back laced with tattoos."

The pictures were taken by Nick Knight.

In the accompanying interview, Posh, 33, talks about her figure, marriage and her new career as a fashion designer.

"It's tough being a pop star and a footballer's wife. I'm aware of people's preconceptions. For the other girls, it's their business, but I don't do that any more. My business is fashion," she said.

Discussing her weight, she said: "I would never put my health at risk. Obviously working out is important. Well, I don't. I have joined a gym but I can't bring myself to start," adding jokingly: "What do you wear on the running machine? I can't bring myself to wear flat shoes."

The Chopard diamond ring and matching earrings she wears on the cover were a present from husband David. The interview was conducted at the Beckhams' family home in Sawbridgeworth, Herts.

The full interview is in the April issue of Vogue, on sale Monday.

Posh close to collapse? - Mar 5 2008
Victoria Beckham has been working so hard that her friends apparently fear for her health, thinking she may be heading for burnout.

The 33-year-old, who finished a gruelling reunion tour with the Spice Girls last week, has now thrown herself back into her fashion career, promoting her new DVB jeans range, and has other projects in the pipeline.

A source close to Posh told Grazia: "Victoria has been running on empty for the last few months and is very, very tired. The tour has completely drained all the energy out of her, as it did the other girls, but on top of her Spice Girl commitments, Victoria has continued to invest masses of energy into her fashion career. Everyone is very worried she might keel over."

During New York fashion show last month, the mum-of-three sat through fashion shows taking notes on the designs by day, and sang on stage with the Spices at night.

The source added: "Victoria kept saying how exhausted she was and there were moments backstage when she had to stop and sit down or lean against a wall because she felt so wobbly."

Victoria’s restaurant ’snub’ - Feb 26 2008
Victoria Beckham was apparently kept waiting for a table when she visited an exclusive New York restaurant.

The Spice Girl was hoping to enjoy a stylish lunch at Manhattan eatery Michael’s, but the staff failed to recognise her and she was forced to queue up with everyone else, according to Star magazine.

One onlooker told the magazine: "It was a room full of movers and shakers and the maitre d’ kept her waiting for half an hour for a table. She looked really upset but, let’s put it this way, there were a lot more important people in the room than her!"

... read more 12 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 next (10) next»

Biography

Victoria Caroline Adams was born to a wealthy Hertfordshire family in 1975, in fact so wealthy her father, the owner of an electrical wholesale company, reportedly drove her to school in a Rolls Royce (much to her embarrassment).

Victoria wanted to be famous from a young age, taking dance lessons after watching Fame and attending the Jason Theatre School in Enfield from the age of 8 until she was seventeen. This was when she secured a place at the Laine Arts Theatre College in Surrey and began auditioning for bands.

In March of 1993, when she spotted an ad in The Stage: "Are you between 18 and 23 and are able to sing and dance? Are you street-smart, extrovert, ambitious and serious about it?" Victoria joined Geri, Mel B and Mel C along with a girl called Michelle (who would later be replaced by Victoria’s childhood friend Emma Bunton) in winning a place in the Spice Girls. After a rocky start the group signed to Virgin Records and became the biggest girl group ever, releasing hit singles and albums year after year, making a succesful feature film and becoming one of the most influential bands of the nineties and inspiration to millions of young girls.

However, the Spice Girls’ bubble eventually burst as Geri left to pursue a solo career and although the remaining four released a few more singles the magic had gone and after recording a final album they went their seperate ways. Victoria bided her time before launching her first solo single, Out Of Your Mind, in collaboration with Truesteppers and Dane Bowers. The single coiincided with the release of Sophie Ellis Bextor’s collaboration with Spiller and resulted in a chart battle which Sophie won. The defeat reflected badly on Victoria and her solo career seemed to go from bad to worse. Her next single, Not Such An Innocent Girl found itself up against Kylie Minogue’s Can’t Get You Out Of My Head, which only served to highlight the difference in quality between Victoria’s efforts and those of established pop stars. Her debut album was released two weeks later and on managing to only just edge in to the top ten Victoria was dropped by Virgin.

On hooking up with former Spice Girls manager Simon Fuller, Victoria decided to take a more R&B influenced turn, against her manager’s advice. She began a friendship with Damon Dash who not only assisted Victoria in her musical direction but signed her up to model for his Rocawear label. A dounle A side, Let Your Head Go/This Groove, was released in the week following Christmas 2003 but charting at number 3 in the single chart’s least competetive week it was considered a commercial flop. The single remains Victoria’s last release although she has regularly returned to the studio to work with, among others, Cathy Dennis. Several tracks remain unreleased and Victoria claims that she’ll only sing again if the Spice Girls reunite.

Concentrating on her fashion career, Victoria as previously designed for Rock and Republic as well as modelling for Rocawear and Maria Grachvogel. Her second book (her first was an autobiography, Learning to Fly), That Extra Half An Inch: Heels, Hair and Everything in Between, cemented Victoria’s influence as a fashion icon.

In 1997 Victoria met British footballing icon David Beckham and before long they were the country’s most talked about couple. Victoria fell pregnant two years later and following the birth of their first son, Brooklyn, the couple were married in a lavish ceremony at Ireland’s Luttrellstown Castle. Despite rumours of David’s infidelity and problems moving between Britain and Spain for his career the Beckham’s marriage remains strong and they have had two further sons, Romeo (born 2002) and Cruz (born 2005). The family plan to move to Los Angeles later this year with plans to create a relaity show based around the move. Meanwhile rumours of a Spice Girls reunion persist. We might get Victoria back in front of that mic yet.

March 2008

Celebrity star rating:
A- list:		B- list:		C- list:		D- list:		Z- list: