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Victoria Beckham Netflix Docuseries Reveals Eating Disorder and Fashion-Brand Near-Collapse

The three-part Netflix series from Studio 99, directed by Nadia Hallgren, frames her story around Paris Fashion Week 2024.

Overview

  • Now streaming worldwide after a London premiere, the series presents Victoria Beckham’s first-person account of her life from Spice Girl to designer.
  • Beckham says her fashion label was tens of millions in the red as David Beckham funded it until he told her he could not keep investing.
  • Investor David Belhassen describes a restructuring that curbed excesses, citing about £70,000 a year on office plants plus roughly £15,000 for watering.
  • Beckham discloses a long struggle with an eating disorder, linking it to harsh media scrutiny, including being weighed on live TV months after giving birth.
  • The docuseries features commentary from fashion figures such as Anna Wintour, Roland Mouret and Donatella Versace, with only brief on-screen moments from Brooklyn and Nicola Peltz Beckham.