Victoria Beckham Opens Up About Being 'Really Bullied' at School, Recalls Kids Throwing Coke Cans at Her Michelle LeeOctober 23, 2025 at 2:34 AM 0 Neil Mockford/FilmMagic Victoria Beckham pictured at the "Victoria Beckham" world premiere in London on October 08, 2025 Victoria Beckham detailed the bu...
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Victoria Beckham detailed the bullying she endured as a teenager and college student in her interview on Alex Cooper's Call Her Daddy podcast
The former pop star said she was "physically and mentally" harassed in her younger years, recalling a time that kids threw "cokes cans from puddles" at her
Beckham then talked about the "thick skin" she built from those experiences that eventually helped shield her from the media's intense scrutiny when she became famous
Before she grew into becoming a household name, Victoria Beckham was ridiculed for being herself.
In her Oct. 22 interview with Alex Cooper on the Call Her Daddy podcast, Beckham, 51, opened up about the emotional and physical bullying she endured in her younger years.
"I remember standing in the playground, literally standing on my own and kids just picking up Coke cans from puddles and throwing them at me," she explained. "I was physically and mentally really bullied at school, and we didn't talk about mental health like we do nowadays, so I just internalized all of that. It just made me more and more shy."
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The former pop star recalled being an "awkward" teen who "didn't fit in socially because when all the other kids after school were smoking and hanging out, I was going to dancing lessons or I was going to drama lessons."
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Victoria Beckham greeting attendees of her Spring/Summer 2024 show in Paris on September 29, 2023
Beckham said that even the adults in her life would act the same way as her peers. "I remember at a really early age, a family friend saying to my mom that I was morose. That's quite a tough thing to say to a kid. When I understood what that meant, that really did affect me. It made me very, very self-conscious."
Her looks were another part of her insecurity. "When you're younger, your hormones are flying around all over the place. Your body is changing," the Victoria Beckham Beauty founder said, who added that her academic skills gave her a reputation for being "thick."
"On top of that, when I was a teenager, I was diagnosed with having polycystic ovaries, which was just another hurdle because that can mess with your skin, it can mess with your body. I was told that I could possibly struggle to get pregnant and have children. When you're a teenager, these elements are difficult to digest."
Although Beckham said that she had "supportive parents," she was "ashamed and embarrassed" to vocalize the harassment she was dealing with. "I didn't tell anybody...my entire school life was miserable."
The ridicule continued when she went to college, where she was told she wasn't "good enough" or "too fat to even be on the stage," which gave her cause to form "thick skin" that she eventually used to protect herself from the media's "public bullying."
"I think it toughened me up and prepared me for what was coming next," she said.
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Victoria Beckham walks the runway after presenting her brand's Spring/Summer 2024 show in London on February 17, 2019
Beckham opens up about how the media's invasive scrutiny led to her experience with an eating disorder in her self-titled Netflix docuseries, which came out on Oct. 9.
In an episode, she specifically details the comments that were said about her figure on national television following the birth of her oldest son, Brooklyn.
"'Get on those scales'... 'Have you lost the weight?' We laugh about it and we joke about it when we're on television, but I was really, really young and that hurts," she recalls. "I really started to doubt myself and not like myself because I let it affect me. I didn't know what I saw when I looked in the mirror. You lose all sense of reality. I've been everything from 'Porky Posh' to 'Skinny Posh'.
Speaking with Cooper, Beckham revealed that her past health condition was something she wanted to be open about with her daughter and youngest child, Harper Seven, 14.
"She's obviously seen the documentary," explained the mom of four. "And little girls still obsess over food. It's still a big conversation at school."
"I talked to her because I hadn't seen the final edit until the premiere… I thought that this might have been left in because obviously I knew that I talked about it. And so I just spent a bit of time talking to her about it so she could understand."
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