Victoria Beckham Says She Represents All Women With Her Shape And Size

Posted: 29/03/2012 10:41 Updated: 29/03/2012 10:54

She's as known for her super-slim frame as she is for her pouting, designer frocks and famous hubby so we raised a collective eyebrow here at Huff Post Celeb when Victoria Beckham declared she 'stood for the general public' when it came to size.

As a slender size 6, Posh is below the average size 14 of British women, but she still reckons she represents.

In an exclusive interview with Harper's Bazaar, the former Spice Girl-turned designer revealed how she prefers to try out her new designs herself.

"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 said.

"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.”

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She also revealed her complete shock at winning the Designer Brand Of the Year at the British Fashion Awards.

“When they read my name, I was genuinely not expecting it. It was an out-of-body experience", she said.

"It was like my heart was going to jump out of my body. I came offstage and said, ‘I cried three times, I didn’t thank the people I wanted to thank, I was really rubbish’. But I think people saw the real me...and the truth is, I would have felt much more comfortable in my pyjamas with the kids and David in a hotel watching it on TV.”

The full feature appears in the May issue of Harper’s Bazaar UK, on sale Monday 2nd April

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She's as known for her super-slim frame as she is for her pouting, designer frocks and famous hubby so we raised a collective eyebrow here at Huff Post Celeb when Victoria Beckham declared she 'st...
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x46
05:55 PM on 04/08/2012
Some people are naturally thin, but I don't think Victoria is one of them if she's always on a diet. She was larger when she was a Spice Girl. Victoria Beckham doesn't look healthy.

I was a size 8Canadian (aka an American 2) at 5'8" until I was in my early 40s and starting taking meds which put weight on me. My 30 year old daughter (5'6") is a size6 Canadian (0 or 00 American). Neither of us could gain weight no matter what we ate. It was a bit of a curse as people think you're deliberately starving yourself when you're not and you wouldn't mind putting on a few pounds, and, you have to eat like a football player to keep from losing weight. Both of us are/were strong and athletic. There's a huge difference between being healthy and being naturally (too) thin and starving yourself into a size0 and looking it.

No, Victoria Beckham is NOT the average. Perhaps if she went out onto the street and saw real people instead of using the Paris models as her idea of average, she would realize that.
07:25 PM on 03/31/2012
I have no plastic parts and my face is not a pointed witchy type one so I say no I do not look like Victoria Beckham thankfuly
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butchcliff
The future is unwritten
12:48 PM on 03/30/2012
Think using the pronoun 'I' eight times in one paragraph says it all
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sioux01721
07:53 AM on 03/30/2012
The General Public being, I presume, people who can afford a nanny while they go out to the gym for hours at a time, and who can afford breast implants to augment what's been starved off in the booby department.
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FreedomMan
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10:59 PM on 03/29/2012
Phisha . . .
09:33 PM on 03/29/2012
Well she certainly represents being 'deluded' perfectly.
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FreedomMan
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11:00 PM on 03/29/2012
The cause is that fashion money bubble she lives in.
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07:45 PM on 03/29/2012
Ha. At last, something else to make me laugh today.....Can't be bothered saying anymore,.
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beenzrgud
Can't say what I'd like to here.
07:34 PM on 03/29/2012
What a pretentious miserable woman. I don't think she represents women, skinny or not.
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FreedomMan
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11:03 PM on 03/29/2012
She is lovely in her vanity though
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sioux01721
07:54 AM on 03/30/2012
I disagree.
04:53 PM on 03/29/2012
I suggest the magazine featured needs a spell checker... Bazaar!

With the likes of sticky insect Posh on it front cover,, surely it should be spelled...... Bizarre!
DrJon
Deprofessionalized professional
03:09 PM on 03/29/2012
SO she represents 3 percent of all 14 year old girls with trainers?
02:35 PM on 03/29/2012
Oopsy, celebrity nonsense alert.
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vividrick
I came, I saw...I had a cup of tea!
12:21 PM on 03/29/2012
Yeah right!