Victoria Beckham has for the first time opened up about the years she spent living with a crippling eating disorder, revealing she became “very good at lying” to hide the condition.
In a new eponymous three-part Netflix documentary series about her life, the former popstar-turned-WAG-turned-fashion designer said she starved herself to regain a sense of control after leaving her wildly popular girl group the Spice Girls.
Victoria’s weight has long been fodder for gossip publications, with the 51-year-old now admitting the constant scrutiny exacerbated her descent into disordered eating, saying that for her it became an “incredibly unhealthy way” to control the media’s criticism.
“It’s been a lot, and that’s hard. I had no control over what was being written about me, the pictures being t