Beckham vs. Beckham
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All right, we're at the vitamin store. What did I have to bring? It was the Sanasol Vita Nuts. The good taste, real and original. That's how it is. The Sanasol Vita Nuts multivitamin bag has three nuts. In the middle is the king nut and the sidekicks next to it. Found it. Now the nuts are in the glove. Good to hear. Campsite Media. Hi everyone, Natalie here. So, family estrangement has been something we, as a very therapized culture, have been discussing more lately. The New Yorker described family estrangement as, quote, the process by which family members become strangers to one another, like intimacy reversed. But we rarely get to see family estrangement play out publicly, especially not in one of the most famous families in the world.
This week, we're talking about one such family, David and Victoria Beckham, Posh and Becks. Victoria is not a typical footballer's wife. Victoria is clearly a very assertive young woman. From his underwear to her eating habits, we're spared almost no detail about the lives of David and Victoria Beckham. The former Spice Girl has seen her clothing and accessories brand grow into a business with a £30 million turnover. David Beckham, with his curtain hair and East End accent, was one of the biggest footballers of the 90s. The soccer superstar, as he tells it, set his sights on Victoria while idly watching TV one day. Turned around to Gary, I went, see that one there? I'm going to marry that one. The posh one, the one in the black dress.
Victoria, with her dark bob and signature pout, was in the biggest girl group of the 90s, the Spice Girls. There was Scary Spice and Sporty Spice, Baby Spice and Ginger Spice, and she, Victoria, was Posh Spice. Posh, such a British word that from the get-go established her as separate from the others. We both come from families that work really hard. Both of our parents work really hard. We're very working, working class. I am being honest.
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In the 80s, my dad had a Rolls Royce. When the pair came together, it was a marriage made in tabloid heaven. With David, Victoria stayed in the public eye as a wag, a wife and girlfriend, even after the Spice Girls broke up. With Victoria, David became a fashion icon, not just a footballer, wearing things that seemed so crazy at the time, like a sarong or a headband. And when I say they were in the tabloids, I mean they were all over the tabloids. OK! magazine paid them a million pounds for access to their wedding in 1999, at which they wore matching purple outfits. Even their then four-month-old son, Brooklyn, who was dressed up in a purple Stetson and bib. Very purple. Prince purple. I felt so blessed to be married to David.
I had this amazing relationship, this amazing little baby. But it felt quite slow. It felt really lonely. And I remember thinking, God, is anybody going to want to put me on a plane and do a photo shoot again? Fast forward nearly 27 years and Brooklyn, with his furrowed brow and perpetually upturned lips, looks just like a dark-haired version of his father. But that little baby, who was photographed so publicly his whole life, has now very publicly separated himself from his parents. So what really happened between the Beckhams, their son Brooklyn, and his wife, Nicola Peltz, the daughter of a billionaire? Let's find out. Hello, everyone. Welcome back to Infamous, a Campside Media and Sony Music Entertainment podcast.
So this week, we are talking about what has been all the goss and the tabloids, and that is the Beckhams. In some ways, it's a very sad story. It's a story about the family estrangement of Victoria and David Beckham and their children, particularly Brooklyn Beckham and his wife, Nicola Peltz. But it also is juicy and there's a lot of bizarre media sort of conflagrations and fiascos that have happened in the middle of it. You could even say backstabbings. So is it the media pitting two women against each other or what is going on exactly? And what does it say about this conversation about family estrangement and people's decisions to cut off their parents, which has frankly been in the public sphere a lot?
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