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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Jocelyn Noveck

From Spice Girl to fashion mogul, Victoria Beckham grabs the chance to tell her own tale

Britain Victoria Beckham Premiere - (Invision)

Now here’s something you might not quite believe about Victoria Beckham, glam Spice Girl turned high-profile fashion designer: At theater school, they purposely put her in the back row. Because she was too heavy.

“It was really difficult,” she says now of the memory from her youth, sipping a sparkling water in a Manhattan hotel in between work engagements. “We were all judged on how we looked. I was young. I had bad skin, my weight was going up and down, I had really lank hair.”

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