Victoria Beckham addresses divorce rumours as she fronts British Vogue
'It's all about the family unit'
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Your support makes all the difference.Victoria Beckham and her four children front British Vogue’s October issue alongside the family’s cocker spaniel, Olive.
In a candid interview inside the issue, the former Spice Girl-turned-fashion designer addresses the rumours that her and husband of 19 years, David Beckham, are on the brink of divorce.
Reaffirming her family's closeness, Victoria Beckham describes the rumours surrounding the dissolution of her marriage are “unfair”, telling the magazine that they have an adverse effect on the people around her.
“We are much stronger, the six of us, than we would be if we were individuals," she adds.
"Would either of us be in the position that we are in now had we not met and been together all those years ago?”
In June, the couple issued a statement to Harper’s Bazaar describing claims that they were heading for a divorce as "nonsense", following rumours that had circulated on social media.
In the British Vogue interview, Beckham also opens up about starting her eponymous fashion brand in 2008, which has since grown to become one of the most esteemed labels in the UK and the US and is often one of the most coveted catwalk shows on the fashion week calendar.
“I wasn’t trying to do anything other than express myself and create clothes I wanted, but couldn’t find. It grew from there,” she said.
She also described herself as “an underdog,” confessing that she was bullied at school and “wasn’t that clever.
“Everything you wanted to be – that popular girl – I was the complete other end of the scale.”
The interview is accompanied by a hilarious satirical video, styled in the form of a typical ‘behind the scenes’ cover shoot clip in which Beckham is seen striking a series of iconic Spice Girls poses and jokingly telling editor-in-chief, Edward Enninful, to “spice up [his] life”.
See the full feature in the October issue of British Vogue, available on digital download and newsstands on Friday 7 September.
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