Spice Girls star Victoria Beckham has opened up about how her lifestyle and look as a WAG helped her to find her way outside of the band as she began to craft her future in fashion
Victoria Beckham has opened up about her role as an iconic WAG who was a founding figure for adoration of footballer’s wives.
The pop superstar was legendary for her dark fake tan, voluminous hair extensions, slender figure, and bulging cleavage thanks to a boob job. When she was snapped attending the 2006 World Cup in Germany to support David she was the epitome of WAG style.
Victoria was even among the women who inspired the iconic TV show Footballers Wives alongside her fellow WAGS like Coleen Rooney and Cheryl Tweedy. However, reflecting on the time in her life in her Netflix documentary, Victoria, admitted she “buried those boobs” as she strived to have a career in the fashion business.
Victoria revealed that upmarket designer Roland Mouret — who stars in the documentary — was a driving force in her decision to have them removed.
Victoria explained how they are now likely “bobbing around in the Mediterranean sea”, before adding, “I mean, yes, I was a Wag. And a proud one.
“I think that I’ve spent such a long time after the Spice Girls searching for my purpose and I didn’t know what it was, so I suppose that’s why I dressed in that way. There were a lot of hair extensions, tight tops and fake tan, although, I still do fake tan.”
Speaking to The Sun she continued, “I’m not going to lie, it was probably to get attention, because I was searching for my identity. I don’t know where those boobs went, but they went. It was definitely working with Roland that did it.
“He’s so great and I wouldn’t have a career if it wasn’t for him.
“It came from a need to be taken more seriously and me not knowing who I was. And so I think it was Roland that encouraged me to just be me — not feel I had to be that person. To just tone it down. And I think the nice thing about it is, then, I could just show myself through my collections.”
Victoria also revealed that she looks back “at those days now and I smile,” and that she was “robably getting it from all angles back then, but let me tell you, I’ve had a lot worse said about me than I was a Wag.”
She stressed, “I mean, we were all wives and girlfriends. Let me tell you, though, that’s probably one of the nicest things people have said about me. For years, people have misunderstood my irony.
“Of course ‘Wag’ is probably seen as un-feminist nowadays, but we live in different times, and people now are much more accountable for what they say.”
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