Victoria Beckham has said that she found being asked about her time in the Spice Girls "quite triggering".

The 51-year-old star is the subject of a new Netflix documentary series, which is simply titled Victoria Beckham, and she found being interviewed about her girl band past "almost like therapy" because she has struggled with her time in the group overshadowing her fashion career.

She told the Sunday Times Style magazine: “I’ve been defined by a four-year period in my life. That was the Spice Girls.

“It’s taken me almost two decades to fight that and I feel that only now can I look back and talk about it. I’m not going to lie, being asked questions about when I was in the Spice Girls was quite triggering. And I’d say those were the most difficult moments. It was almost like therapy for me.”

However, Victoria insisted she is "so proud" of everything she achieved with the group and is still in contact with all her bandmates.

She said: "I love the Spice Girls. I really do. And it’s been great reflecting on that time. The other night I had dinner with Emma and Geri, and Mel B messaged me at the weekend. I still speak to all of the girls.

"I’m so proud of everything we did. I wouldn’t have been who I am now if it wasn’t for the Spice Girls, 100 per cent."

Almost all of the SG were in Victoria Beckham premiere night

They all look incredible but Geri's face looks odd

Emma is glowing 😍

Emma, Melanie C and Victoria look SENSATIONAL!

Geri looks like she is wearing my grandmothers clothes tbh. 🫠

Omg Geri, please better stay at bed with this dress. She looks horrible.

Emma simply incredible

The looks Emma is serving lately, she looks like she's about to promote her brand new new solo album which is full of original and career highlight songs! Alas...

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Victoria's documentary re: Spice Girls.... I will preface this post by saying I haven't actually watched it for myself, but from what I've read, it's all a bit meh.

She claims that David had to convince her to take part in the 2007/8 tour:

“When I was working with Roland [Mouret] the other Spice Girls told me they wanted to go on tour. David was like, you know, ‘It’s really good for the kids to see you do this,’” she said. In a cutaway, David told the camera: “Our kids weren’t around to see their mum be a Spice Girl.” Victoria added: “He mum-guilted me!"

While I think it's evident that by the end of the tour Victoria was over it, I personally don't believe she was reluctant before it began... I mean, she was in full-on WAG / reality TV show mode at that point.

Also, she made a comment about Mel B:

“One of the girls actually said to me, and it did upset me not too long ago actually,” Victoria recalled in episode two of the docuseries. “It was Melanie B who said to me, ‘Don’t forget where you’ve come from.’” But as the 51-year-old explained, “I have never forgotten where I come from. I’ve never, ever forgotten that Posh Spice is the reason that I’m sitting here now. She might have been grumpy, but she was actually great.”

The reports about this aren't very clear about when it happened, "not too long ago" suggests 2018/19 tour era to me? Some articles claim 2007/8 but that was clearly a long time ago lol.

lol it was definitely 2018 when it was reported that Mel B talked to Victoria one last time before they announced the tour but Victoria still said no. She can say whatever she want now but as a fan she really treated her time as a spice girl as that wasn't meant to be taken seriously then. Remember she said they turned off her mic every nights during the tour???

I think she is doing a little bit of revisionism there for the sake of the documentary and to portray herself as 'already over it' when she was actually one of the driving forces back then with Geri and Emma. There's pictures and rumours from the end of 2006 about it and she was the one who got Simon back on board too...

She changed her mind afterwards of course and we know she lost her passion for performing during that tour, and that's fine but naaaa I think she is changing the narrative to suit her on this. She also says in the documentary that she has been working for the establishment of her label for 20 years, which would have been in 2005 and that's just not true either LOL

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In other news, back in 1998 apparently Geri called Ben Elton (who used to write and direct films and TV shows) to get him and Richard Curtis (of Love Actually fame) to write a sit-com to the group. It never materialised because Geri left the band literally the following week 🥲

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPoKWkpDu5r/

Lol how curious that Geri put that idea in motion only to leave so suddenly. That could have been an interesting thing to materialise.

Mark Ronson says he would be honoured to work with the Spice Girls! He often makes remixes and edits of their tracks for his own pleasure...

I mean, come on.... Mark Ronson is a legend and a pretty top notch producer (the stuff he has been doing with RAE won her like 6 brit awards lol)...

Why the hell are they not in a studio with him right now? For f***s sake...

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPvfA3GjPKX/

They should be listening to Mark Ronson and not their Orange so-called fan, urgh!!!

28 minutes ago, Mr.X said:

Mark Ronson is a legend and a pretty top notch producer (the stuff he has been doing with RAE won her like 6 brit awards lol)...

If you meant Raye, then you're wrong. Raye’s BRIT nominations were for work she did wth other collaborators. Mark didn't work on her debut album.

23 minutes ago, VampFan said:

If you meant Raye, then you're wrong. Raye’s BRIT nominations were for work she did wth other collaborators. Mark didn't work on her debut album.

oh maybe I was confused then, as I though he did work on that album?...

Anyway, he's pretty f***ing good!

That’s pretty awesome! I bet there’s many big names in music who’d fall over themselves to work on a Spice Girls comeback. I wish they’d realise that. 🥺

1 minute ago, -Jay- said:

That’s pretty awesome! I bet there’s many big names in music who’d fall over themselves to work on a Spice Girls comeback. I wish they’d realise that. 🥺

Yeah, me too, honestly...

I bet if someone was to entice them with a couple of studio sessions with Ronson and then some more with Biff to see how that would turn out, it would be pretty ace. I think MNEK would also jump at the chance too, same with the likes of Jon Shave (Sugababes, Charli XCX)...

Even Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis said they would love to work with them again a couple of years ago...

Come on...

It amazes me to think that they’re all apparently satisfied with just three albums representing them, from 25-30 years ago. Have they never had any “what if?” feelings over the years regarding how it would feel to make & release a new album? Has it never seemed enticing to have lots of fresh material to perform? To relive major aspects of what it is to be in a pop group? I wish the Spice Girls could be more to them than occasional reunion tours.

If they’re all afraid of the concept of failure or “damaging the legacy”, I don’t understand why that is. If they could survive the musical tanking so hard to the point it was pretty embarrassing, then surely they could survive giving a 4th album a try lol. (“They” doesn’t have to include Victoria).

Sigh 🥺 If they all genuinely have no desire at all then ok, but I don’t know if any of them have ever outright said “we have no desire to ever make new music”. Reunion questions to them always seem to be regarding touring rather than new music, so they’ve never really had to address it.

I can’t think of another major group who are unsatisfying in this way!

58 minutes ago, -Jay- said:

It amazes me to think that they’re all apparently satisfied with just three albums representing them, from 25-30 years ago. Have they never had any “what if?” feelings over the years regarding how it would feel to make & release a new album? Has it never seemed enticing to have lots of fresh material to perform? To relive major aspects of what it is to be in a pop group? I wish the Spice Girls could be more to them than occasional reunion tours.

If they’re all afraid of the concept of failure or “damaging the legacy”, I don’t understand why that is. If they could survive the musical tanking so hard to the point it was pretty embarrassing, then surely they could survive giving a 4th album a try lol. (“They” doesn’t have to include Victoria).

Sigh 🥺 If they all genuinely have no desire at all then ok, but I don’t know if any of them have ever outright said “we have no desire to ever make new music”. Reunion questions to them always seem to be regarding touring rather than new music, so they’ve never really had to address it.

I can’t think of another major group who are unsatisfying in this way!

I've wondered this a few times, and the answer I've told myself is that perhaps they're not really in it for the music. It seems it's always been more about the glitz, showbiz, fame, etc - only exception could be Mel C. Or maybe they're worried about how they might sound?

I've always kind of viewed it like two real albums representing them, and a third one which was kind of half-heartedly thrown together out of obligation because they had no real desire to even do it anymore. I think that's something which has remained since, and that's why they only do the occasional reunion tour to top up their funds.

I always wonder what could've been had Geri not decided to derail everything in 1998. It's a shame really, I bet nobody anticipated when Spiceworld was released how it would end up and that their legacy would just be a brief snapshot in time.