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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account. by [Scarlett Harris](https://time.com/author/scarlett-harris/) ## Scarlett Harris Oct 9, 2025 8:37 PM UTC  Victoria Beckham Victoria BeckhamCourtesy of Netflix by [Scarlett Harris](https://time.com/author/scarlett-harris/) ## Scarlett Harris Oct 9, 2025 8:37 PM UTC In the last decade, a spate of pop culture [examining how the media mistreated famous women](https://time.com/5943177/britney-spears-joss-whedon-feminism/) in the 1990s and 2000s has recontextualized their stories. Jordan Peele produced a docuseries on Lorena Gallo nee Bobbitt in 2019, which [reframed her narrative](https://time.com/5317979/lorena-bobbitt-today-anniversary-interview/) as an alleged victim of sexual assault and intimate partner violence. Monica Lewinsky's story got a Ryan Murphy adaptation in [_Impeachment: American Crime Story_](https://time.com/6093019/impeachment-american-crime-story-review/)in 2021\. Also in 2021, Britney Spears was the subject of the New York _Times_\-produced documentary _Framing Britney Spears_ which was instrumental in ending her 13-year conservatorship later that year. Spears [told her own story](https://time.com/6326001/britney-spears-book-family-conservatorship-fears/) in the 2023 memoir, _The Woman in Me_, which, along with a flood of memoirs by other maligned women, such as Jessica Simpson, Pamela Anderson, and Paris Hilton, prompted questions about our complicity in their mistreatment. The latest aughts-era tabloid figure being reconsidered is Victoria Beckham, in Netflix’s three-part [documentary series](https://time.com/7313021/unknown-number-high-school-catfish-true-story/) of the same name dropping on Thursday. Beckham is primarily now known as a pop star-turned-fashion designer, the latter of which _Victoria Beckham_ centers on as it follows her Spring/Summer 2025 show at Paris Fashion Week, interspersed with old footage and interviews with her, her husband [David Beckham](https://time.com/collection%5Fhub%5Fitem/david-beckham/), and their famous friends and acquaintances. Those who didn’t grow up with the [Spice Girls](https://time.com/collection-post/3847229/victoria-beckam-mothers-day-letter/) might forget that Beckham, or “Posh Spice,” was considered haughty and standoffish, compared to her other, more gregarious bandmates: “Scary Spice” Melanie Brown, “Sporty Spice” Melanie Chisholm, “Ginger Spice” Geri Halliwell-Horner, and “Baby Spice” Emma Bunton. She was also perceived as the weakest singer in the band, which she acknowledges in the documentary: “I’d be lying if I said I was the best singer or dancer.”  Victoria Beckham Courtesy of Netflix After the Spice Girls broke up in 1998, Beckham was a constant target of criticism by the the worst tabloids, which found something to drag in her every move and look. “I’ve been called everything from Porky Posh to Skinny Posh,” the infamous scowler says in the doc. This exacerbated an eating disorder stemming from her childhood as a dancer, when an instructor once told her she was fat. Her solo career, which she tried to get off the ground in 2000, was a bust, so she primarily became known as David Beckham’s partner, or a WAG (wife and girlfriend of a sportsplayer). The couple married in 1999 after dating for two years and she relocated to Manchester, home of Beckham’s soccer team. “The next thing, I’m a wife in a flat in Manchester, not really having any friends, living a long way away from my family. I found that really, really difficult,” she says. The series does not touch on the tabloid attention that followed the Beckhams in 2004, when it was alleged that David had an affair with his personal assistant, Rebecca Loos, and the many further accusations of cheating that littered gossip columns after. David Beckham addressed the scandal briefly in his own 2023 Netflix docuseries, _Beckham_. “Everytime we woke up, it felt like it was something else,” he says. Also omitted from _Victoria Beckham_ are current rumors of a [family feud](https://celebrity.nine.com.au/latest/victoria-beckham-paris-fashion-week-show-brooklyn-no-show-amid-beckham-family-feud/91367f5e-85ea-4312-855e-e7450a42b168). All of her children except her eldest, Brooklyn, appear in the docuseries. (Though _Victoria Beckham_ is not produced by its namesake, this exclusion reflects an ongoing [celebrity documentary industrial complex](https://www.documentary.org/online-feature/how-short-production-timelines-ruin-documentaries) that wants to remain on the side of its subject.) The series traces her life as Victoria followed David from Manchester United to Real Madrid to LA Galaxy (a journey that was documented in the 2007 reality series _Victoria Beckham: Coming to America_) and reveals how, in the process, she lost her identity. “People would introduce themselves as, ‘I’m so-and-so’s wife.’ Right, but what’s your name?” says Eva Longoria, Beckham’s longtime friend and former WAG herself (she was married to basketballer Tony Parker from 2007 to 2011). Victoria finally found herself again in fashion, which has always been a touchpoint in her life. She relished dressing up to perform as a child, and says that since she cared more than the rest of the Spice Girls about fashion, most of their clothing budget went to her “little Gucci dresses.” Tom Ford, head designer of Gucci at the time, and Donatella Versace are featured in the docuseries. Versace says she felt slighted by Beckham when she deigned to redesign a Versace dress that was on loan to her. “How does she dare?” Versace remembers thinking at the time. “But then I realized, it looked better the way she \[did\] it.” So it seemed like a no-brainer that Beckham would eventually make her way into the industry. Despite the irony of her preoccupation with designer labels designating her as the stuffy one in the Spice Girls, she was met with scorn by the fashion establishment. “We can all be a bit snobby in the fashion business,” Anna Wintour says in an appearance in the doc.  David and Victoria Beckham Courtesy of Netflix Cue a whole new set of criticisms about her fashion acumen, once again mostly centered on her relationships to the men in her life, specifically Roland Mouret whom Beckham shadowed as she prepared to launch her own line and, later, her husband who bailed her brand out when she faced financial difficulties in 2017 and 2018\. “‘Of course there’s got to be a man behind it, it couldn’t be a silly little pop star,’” she says of the critique. Ultimately, she had to “shed the personas” of the pretentious pop star, artificial WAG and even unsmiling sourpuss (Beckham actually has quite the sense of humor). “I didn’t need to say, hey look at me, because this creative outlet can do the talking,” she says. Even now, as a bonafide fashion success, with the Victoria Beckham label undergoing [four years](https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025/aug/26/victoria-beckham-brand-gets-loan-from-stars-and-backer-as-its-losses-grow) of consistent growth resulting in over [£100 million](https://www.businessoffashion.com/news/luxury/victoria-beckham-annaul-sales-earnings-100-million-netflix-series-beauty-fashion/) in annual sales, she’s mostly dressed down in quiet luxury hoodies in the documentary. Posh Spice, indeed. Some viewers might struggle to find empathy for Beckham in the series. After all, this is the woman who went [viral](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/victoria-beckham-netflix-documentary-david-viral-meme-b2839881.html) for a clip from _Beckham_ in which she admitted her family had a Rolls Royce when she was growing up. But rich girls have problems too and, as Beckham says, “when people are mean… and you’re constantly made to feel you’re not good enough, that hurts.” A Netflix Docuseries Gives Victoria Beckham a Much Deserved Reassessment ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/7324827/victoria-beckham-netflix-documentary/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/7324827/victoria-beckham-netflix-documentary/"},"headline":"A New Netflix Docuseries Gives Victoria Beckham a Much Deserved Reassessment","datePublished":"2025-10-09T20:37:46.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:51:20.667Z","description":"The pop star-turned-fashion designer opens up about her struggles with an eating disorder and finding her identity amid tabloid attention","url":"https://time.com/7324827/victoria-beckham-netflix-documentary/","keywords":["Television","freelance","culturepod"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7eddfdd438476313/6998cab693610c451bc30149/Victoria_Beckham_n_S1_E1_00_19_36_19.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Scarlett Harris","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/scarlett-harris/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7eddfdd438476313/6998cab693610c451bc30149/Victoria_Beckham_n_S1_E1_00_19_36_19.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Victoria_Beckham_n_S1_E1_00_19_36_19","caption":"","creditText":"Courtesy of Netflix","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/television/","name":"Television"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/7324827/victoria-beckham-netflix-documentary/","name":"A New Netflix Docuseries Gives Victoria Beckham a Much Deserved Reassessment"}}]}] ```