14 DAY TRIAL // Victoria Beckham might be a lot of things, but she's definitely not average in any way. Though at one point striving to prove she was more than met the eye, Posh is now trying to play the relatable card, in a new interview with Harper's Bazaar UK.
Posing for a gorgeous, retro-inspired spread, the former pop star turned successful designer says she's not what people think she is.
If anything, she's like most women out there, from the way she juggles motherhood and career, to her body.
“We always joke that we have this fabulously gorgeous 17-year-old model who is six-foot-whatever and then I say 'OK, I’m going to put it on. I stand for the general public here',” she tells the magazine.
She's talking about trying not to use size 0 girls for her fashion designs, and trying them out herself because, this way, she can better identify with the customer.
The problem is, as noted above, Victoria Beckham is anything but average so, no matter how hard she insists she “stands for the general public,” she will always cater only to a certain type of woman.
As fashion gurus also point out, Victoria's designs are expensive and very unforgiving to anything but a perfect figure, which is to say her clients are very rich and very skinny women – like herself.
In this light, this comment, coming from a celebrity who has often been plagued by anorexia rumors, in a context in which the average size of British women is 16, is just a tad hypocritical.
Moreover, Victoria laments how she couldn't wear her own clothes when pregnant with her last child, daughter Harper, who was born a few months ago.
“It’s how I work. I found it really difficult when I was pregnant and I couldn’t do that. It’s part of the process - I’ll stand here in my knickers and start draping fabric over myself. It was very hard when I didn’t have my body,” she says.
Just recently, in another interview, Victoria talked about how she lost the weight after she gave birth, by literally jumping out of the hospital bed and on a treadmill to run six days a week.
Her comments have been met with ridicule in the British press because, shortly after Harper was delivered via C-section, she suffered a slipped disk, which must have translated into at least a couple of months of zero exercise.