Victoria Beckham was left humiliated when she was cruelly weighed on live TV just three months after giving birth to her first child, Brooklyn.
The former Spice Girl was seemingly pressured into stepping onto the scales by presenter Chris Evans, who bizarrely asked to check her weight during an interview in May 1999 on the Channel 4 show, TFI Friday.
Wearing a pair of black trousers and corset top, Victoria beamed as she headed to meet with Chris, who jokingly introduced her as the “future Queen of England”.
Soon-to-be husband David Beckham was watching in the wings as she was grilled over the footballer’s recent FA Cup final win with Manchester United, but the conversation soon turned to baby Brooklyn.
“A lot of girls want to know, because you look fantastic again, how did you get back to your shape after birth?” Chris asked Victoria, who looked visibly uncomfortable.
She said she was “really lazy” and hadn’t been to the gym, but Chris continued to push Victoria on her weight.
“Is your weight back to normal?” he asked, prompting the singer to reply: “Yes it is.”
“Can I check, do you mind?” the host said.
Stunned, Victoria exclaimed: “Oh no, you did this to Geri, didn’t you!” as she told Chris that her former bandmate was “really small” as she stepped onto the scales.
The camera then zoomed into the number on the dial, as the former Big Breakfast presenter said : “Eight stone’s not bad at all, is it.”
The audience whooped and cheered, and Victoria got her revenge by making Chris step onto the scales himself.
The star wed footballer David just a few weeks after the interview, and her 2001 memoir Learning to Fly, Victoria admitted she had privately suffered with an eating disorder while in the Spice Girls.
“I began living on vegetables and nothing else,” she wrote.
In a recent interview with Grazia, the fashion designer spoke about societal views on women being thin is now “old-fashioned”.
“I think women today want to look healthy and curvy [instead],” she said.
“It's not about being a certain size. It's about knowing who you are and being happy with who you are,” Victoria shared.
