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Victoria Beckham Docuseries Debuts on Netflix With Candid Look at Fame and Fashion

The three-part portrait traces a reinvention through candid accounts of debt, disordered eating, media pressure.

Overview

  • Netflix released Victoria Beckham worldwide on October 9 as a three-episode series directed by Nadia Hallgren and featuring testimony from Anna Wintour, Tom Ford, Roland Mouret and Eva Longoria.
  • Victoria says she would not be who she is without the Spice Girls, with a London premiere drawing former bandmates Melanie Chisholm, Emma Bunton and Geri Halliwell.
  • David Beckham says her fashion label fell into tens of millions in losses, with the series detailing extravagant spending such as about $70,000 a year on plants and a Gucci shopping spree in her Spice Girls era.
  • The program recounts how investor David Belhassen stepped in during 2017 to overhaul the business after reviewing steep losses and operational excesses.
  • Victoria discusses long-running eating disorders, recalling being weighed on live TV months after giving birth, while David reflects on the harsher media culture of the 2000s.