Victoria Beckham has revealed that husband David used to have to do the ‘walk of shame’ to football training after they’d sneak in date nights in the early stages of their relationship.
The fashion designer, 51, spoke candidly about her relationship with the England manager during an appearance on the Call Her Daddy podcast.
During which time she also opened up about the feud with son Brooklyn that has been dominating headlines, as well as the ‘all consuming’ eating disorder that she revealed for the first time in her eponymous Netflix documentary.
The mother-of-four was reflecting on her life and career when talk turned to how David was able to navigate dating her when she was one of the most famous women in the world
She recalled: ‘He fitted in so seamlessly with the other [Spice] girls. I remember being on tour, doing a show in Manchester, sneaking him into my room, and literally the following morning, David having to jump out the window and do the walk of shame!
‘He had to skip training because of the blisters on his feet – because he literally had to do the walk of shame in his clothes from the night before.’
Victoria Beckham opens up about naughty nights with David, family feuds and her eating disorder in a candid chat on the Call Me Daddy podcast
Victoria revealed that David used to have to do the ‘walk of shame’ to football training after they’d sneak in date nights in the early stages of their relationship (pictured in 1998)
Victoria previously revealed that she was told by her manager to keep the fact that she was dating David ‘under wraps’, with the pair sneaking around and going on dates in car parks when they first struck up their romance in 1997.
When they eventually went public with their romance, the pair dominated the headlines, while their marriage was notably thrust into the spotlight when David was accused of having an affair with his assistant Rebecca Loos.
‘We’ve had so much thrown at us,’ Victoria mused. ‘We were talking about it because we’ve recently celebrated our 26th wedding anniversary – and by the way people said it wouldn’t work – 26 years!
‘We’ve always just been there together and just ridden the storm. Ridden the damn storm.’
Talk also turned to family dynamics amid ongoing tension between the couple and their eldest son.
Victoria and David, 50, are currently locked in a feud with Brooklyn, 26, and his heiress wife Nicola Peltz, 30, with the family not talking in months.
Asked by host Alex Cooper how she’s been able to step back and ‘allow her children to make their own decisions,’ she mused: ‘I mean, we’re such a close family.
‘You know, communication is key and we always let them know that anything they want to talk about, this is a safe forum. That’s really important.
‘But they’ve got to go on their on their journeys themselves.’
Talk also turned to family dynamics as Victoria and David are currently locked in a feud with Brooklyn, 26, and his heiress wife Nicola Peltz, 30, (pictured in 2019)
Pressed on how she and David deal with the changing dynamics in their family, she insisted: ‘Again, it’s just about communicating.
‘We’ve always been that way with the kids. And I’m excited for them, they’re all very different. They all like to do different things.’
In what appeared to be an olive branch to her son and his wife, Victoria included footage of Brooklyn and Nicola in her docuseries, despite their estrangement.
In scenes filmed at Victoria’s September 2024 Paris Fashion Week show, the designer launches into an emotional monologue about her desire to make her family and colleagues proud.
The montage cuts between images of Victoria’s collaborators, with Brooklyn and Nicola seen mingling with guests in the background.
The rest of Victoria’s family – husband David and kids Romeo, 23, Cruz, 20, and Harper, 14, all get more screen time and are shown proudly sitting on the front row ready for the show.
In her documentary, Victoria also opened up about her eating disorder for the first time and elaborated on her lifelong struggle during the podcast chat.
She explained: ‘I’d struggled with my weight since I was since I was quite young.
‘In the ‘Nineties, everybody was obsessed with fat-free and I remember being terrified to eat any fat. Absolutely terrified.
‘I remember my mum saying to me, “Gosh, you you could walk around the supermarket and know the calorie count and the fat count of pretty much anything in the supermarket.”
‘So I was really mindful when I was when I was growing up and that was confusing enough for me – then going into the Spice Girls and having people talk about me so much and my weight…
‘One minute I was porky posh and then I was skinny posh and it plays tricks with you. I didn’t know what I saw when I looked in the mirror. I lost all sense of reality and it is so consuming. It is so tiring and it takes over. It really takes over.’
In her documentary, Victoria also opened up about her eating disorder for the first time and elaborated on her lifelong struggle during the podcast chat (pictured at her Spice Girls audition)
With Victoria admitting she was too ‘scared’ to tell anyone about her eating disorder, she was asked when she felt comfortable opening up to David.
She mused: ‘David has always known that I’ve been very disciplined about the way that I eat. I managed to do it myself and turn an unhealthy obsession with food into a healthy relationship, understanding it’s about balance, it’s about being healthy, about working out.
‘And David helped me do that. David was the one that that changed my workout around.
‘I was doing cardio, cardio, cardio. All I wanted to do was burn, burn, burn. He was the one that encouraged me to start weight training and we work out together. And he’s always been so supportive.’
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