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Victoria Beckham is revealing a red carpet secret.
In her three-part Netflix docuseries, Victoria Beckham, the 51-year-old singer and fashion designer opened up about never smiling while posing at events.
“I’ve looked miserable for all these years because when we stand on the red carpet, this guy has always gone on the left,” she says of appearing alongside her husband, David Beckham.
She continues, “Now I didn’t realize that when I smile, which I do, I smile from the left ‘cause if I smile from the right I look unwell. Consequently, I’m smiling on the inside, but no one ever sees it, so that’s why I look so moody.”
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In a cover story interview for the October 2025 issue of Elle, Victoria teased that she would be divulging details about her brand “for the first time” in her forthcoming Netflix documentary,Victoria Beckham.
“There were rumors right at the beginning: Was this a vanity project, was my husband bailing me out?… That wasn’t about opinion. That was fact. My business was struggling,” she reflected to the outlet, which noted she discusses the topic further in the three-part docuseries.
She continued, “I suppose I have really opened myself up for the first time, and there’s a vulnerability there. I’ve got two more days left of filming, and then my job’s done. Over to the editor.”
Victoria also spoke about the challenge of balancing work on her fashion line during the filming of the documentary.
“I had to leave my vanity at the door, because every time they were following me at work, I had a job to do,” she told Elle. “I couldn’t think about the fact there were cameras there, because I was preparing for a show. One minute we’re creating the collection, picking the fabrics, casting the models. ‘Is this the right flooring? What’s the show music like?”
Added Victoria, “There was so much going on that I had to turn a blind eye to the fact that they were there. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have gotten anything done. I was like, ‘Guys, I’ve got a day job to be getting on with.’”
In the docuseries’ official trailer, released Sept. 17, Victoria gets emotional while discussing the pressure she feels to not only succeed as a designer, but to make her family — David and their four kids, Brooklyn, 26, Romeo, 23, Cruz, 20, and Harper, 14 — proud of her.
“I want my kids and David to be proud of me. It’s taken so long to get to this point,” she says at one point in the trailer, her voice cracking slightly. “I’m not gonna let it slip through my fingers again.”
Elsewhere in the docuseries, the entrepreneur recalls her time as a performer and before that, her time as an “awkward” child, assuring fans that she has “never forgotten where I come from.”
“Performing was my dream. The Spice Girls made me accept who I am. And then all of a sudden, it stopped,” Victoria shares.
“That uncool kid at school that’s awkward, that was me,” she later says as childhood photos of the star flash on screen. “But I desperately wanted to be liked, [to] have a sense of worth. Fashion was this creative outlet. A lot of people didn’t take it seriously.
Victoria Beckham is streaming on Netflix on Thursday, Oct. 9.
