After the release of their chart-topping debut single Wannabe in 1996, “Spice mania” swept the planet, with their self-styled “Girl Power” mantra – a brand of female empowerment that made them a global pop culture phenomenon.
But Geri Halliwell left the Spice Girls in 1998 and the group split up in 2001.
Lady Beckham says she found the transition “really, really difficult”.
She carried on making music, but the criticism she received “really hurt”.
Then came the infamous WAG period. Pictures of Victoria and other wives-and-girlfriends supporting their footballer partners in the German town of Baden-Baden in 2006 were plastered all over the tabloids.
“It was fun,” says Lady Beckham of that time in her life.
But she now concedes there was an “element of attention seeking” to it all. “I was trying to find myself, I felt incomplete, sad, frozen in time maybe,” she says.
After the family moved to the US, Lady Beckham decided she wanted to work in fashion.
But to do that, she knew she had to shed her other personas – the Spice Girl, the WAG. “I buried those boobs in Baden-Baden,” she says.
