Victoria Beckham: I was forced to weigh myself on live TV after giving birth

Victoria Beckham didn’t “Wannabe” on a scale in entrance of a reside TV viewers within the late Nineties.

However alas, the Spice Women member, 48, was coerced into weighing herself on the British chat present “TFI Friday” in Might 1999 — simply two months after welcoming her son Brooklyn.

Posh Spice recalled the embarrassing occasion throughout an interview with Vogue Australia.

“I went on a TV present with Chris Evans a few years in the past and I’d simply had Brooklyn and misplaced a variety of weight after,” the designer mentioned of the humiliating incident. “It occurred to my mum after her pregnancies. It doesn’t imply you may have an consuming dysfunction. And he made me stand on the scales to be weighed.” 

“Are you able to think about doing that these days?” Beckham added.

Within the clip, Evans, 56, requested the English celebrity about her new child and her husband, footballer David Beckham. “Loads of ladies wish to know, since you look implausible once more, how did you get again to your form after start?” Evans inquired.

Beckham revealed on the time that she wasn’t understanding as a lot as a result of she was “lazy.”

The radio host then requested if her weight was “again to regular.” The style icon famous that her weight was positive and Evans took out a physique scale from below his desk.

He petitioned her to get on it and implored her: “Can I examine, do you thoughts?” 

Victoria Beckham pregnant with son Brooklyn in 1998.
Victoria Beckham was snapped whereas pregnant with son Brooklyn in 1998 in London.
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Victoria Beckham steps onto the scale.
Beckham steps onto the dimensions.
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Beckham, who referred to as the stunt “horrible,” sheepishly stepped on the dimensions and Evans revealed the quantity to his viewers. “Eight stone’s [112 lbs.] not dangerous in any respect, is it?” he mentioned on the time.

Beckham additionally mentioned in her interview with the Australian publication the names that individuals have referred to as her over the course of her profession.

“I’ve had ‘Porky Posh,’ I’ve had ‘Skeletal Posh.’ After I had Brooklyn, there was an image pointing to each single a part of my physique the place I needed to concentrate on shedding the burden from,” she recounted.

The mom of 4 additionally advised Grazia earlier this yr about how the thought of being too skinny is “old style.”

Beckham — who loves consuming “whole-grain toast with salt on it” — defined that ladies these days “wish to look wholesome, and curvy. They wish to have some boobs — and a bum.”

When requested about her personal small physique, she responded: “It’s not about being a sure measurement. It’s about realizing who you're and being pleased with who you're. I've discovered my very own steadiness between desirous to have enjoyable and being disciplined about consuming healthily and understanding. Once you’re youthful you combat towards that steadiness, however via being older I’ve reached a spot the place I do know what that steadiness seems like. I simply know what works for me.”

Victoria Beckham chats to Chris Evans on TFI Friday on may 5, 1999 -- the day she was weighed on national television.
Beckham chats to Chris Evans on “TFI Friday” in 1999 — when she was weighed on nationwide tv.
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