Victoria Beckham admits to wild spending on chairs, plants

Victoria Beckham has revealed how out-of-control spending — and no one ever saying No to her — nearly drove her fashion line under and put a strain on her marriage.

Her husband, soccer legend David Beckham, admits he “panicked” when the Victoria Beckham brand went hugely into debt —  “tens of millions in the red,” she reveals in her eponymous new miniseries, debuting Thursday on Netflix.

“For her to have to come to me and say … , ‘the business needs more money,’ that was hard for both of us,” says David, 50, in the three-part doc-series. “Because I didn’t have the money to keep doing this and eventually I was like, ‘This cannot continue.’”

Victoria, 51, launched her fashion house in 2008, but the business nearly closed due to over-expansion and the former Spice Girl’s extravagant spending, including spending $70,000 a year on plants alone – with an employee paid an extra $15,000 just to water them.

The star confesses to doing “bizarre things like flying chairs from one side of the world to the other,” adding, “I hear that now and I’m horrified. People were afraid to tell me no … it’s the power of celebrity and people thought that I wasn’t used to hearing ‘no.’”

It’s not the only inner turmoil Victoria confesses in the series, which follows her in the run-up to her September 2024 Paris fashion show.

For the first time, the famously thin star publicly details how she concealed what she refers to as an “eating disorder.”

“When you have a eating disorder you become very good at lying,” Victoria says. “And I was never honest about it with my parents and I never talked about it publicly.

“It really affects you when you’re being told constantly you’re not good enough, and I suppose that’s been with me my whole life.”

David lashes out at ’90s media for criticizing his wife’s weight — including when a talk-show host in the UK pushed her to step on the scales on camera, just six month after their son Brooklyn, now 26, was born.

“There were a lot of things happening in TV then that won’t happen now, that can’t happen now,” he says.

“My Victoria that I knew [sat] at home in a tracksuit smiling, laughing, having a glass of wine — that [started] to go purely because of the criticism that she was getting.”

Called “everything from Porky Posh to Skinny Posh,” Victoria recalls, “I really started to doubt myself and not like myself and because I let it affect me. I didn’t  know what I saw when I looked in the mirror: Was I fat, was I thin? You lose all sense of reality … I had no control over what was being written about me, pictures that were being taken, and I supposed I wanted to control that, you know?

“I could control it with the clothing, and I could control my weight and I was controlling it in an incredibly unhealthy way.”

Her desperation was fueled, at least in part, by craving acceptance by the fashion industry — including Vogue doyenne Anna Wintour’s seal of approval.

Wintour, who is now a front-row regular at Victoria’s runway shows, admits in the series that she was “skeptical” and a little “snobby” about the former Spice Girl when she was a fashion wannabe, adding, “Most of the celebrities who get involved in our world are not true designers.”

Victoria notes she had to become a “simpler, more elegant version of myself” to fit into that world.

“We had to kill the WAG,” said her fashion mentor, designer Roland Mouret, of Posh’s over-the-top appearance — tiny shorts, a huge Birkin bag and sunglasses that covered half her face — at the 2006 World Cup in Germany, alongside the wives and girlfriends of David’s England national teammates.

“I buried those boobs in Baden Baden,” Victoria says with a laugh of getting rid of her Barbie-like breast implants.

She also reveals that her wild spending habits go all the way back to her time in the Spice Girls — when she lived up to her Posh Spice identity and blew the whole group’s clothing budget at Gucci, leaving the other girls to shop in charity stores.

The Beckhams met when David was an up-and-coming young player for Manchester United, while Victoria had already found global pop fame.

“She was a lot richer than me,” David says, revealing that it was his wife who actually bought their home in Hertfordshire, UK, which has been nicknamed “Beckingham Palace.”

But thins really went off the rails when she tried to run her business.

“I almost lost everything and that was a dark, dark time. I used to cry every day before I went to work every day,” she says in the show.

“It was just getting worse and worse and worse. It was like a snowball that was going down the mountain. There was a lot of waste,” she admits.

“We looked at what I had invested … It made me panic, I was panicked by it because I never saw anything coming back,” David adds of that time.

In November 2017, however, Victoria got a $40 million cash boost when the private equity firm Neo Investment Partners, led by David Belhassen, bought a stake in her brand. In the show, Belhassen calls the business at that time a “disaster.”

The Beckhams now have a reported joint fortune of $671 million, according to the Sunday Times Rich List. The couple and Neo each pumped a further $8.3 million into the business in August, as losses widened to almost $6.71 million despite a surge in sales last year.

Despite everything, David say, “we always agreed that we would support each other no matter what … “

And the show, like David’s 2023 “Beckham” docu-series, reveals what a sly, dry sense of humor Victoria has.

It opens as the coupe are preparing to join King Charles and Queen Camilla at a posh dinner in February. (Months later, David would be knighted in Charles’ birthday honors list.)

When David offers his wife a ‘chocolate bar, she sniffs, “I haven’t had chocolate since the ’90s, I’m not gonna start now.”

After her Paris show — which was attended by her entire family, including now-estranged son Brooklyn — is a hit, the cameras cut to the Beckhams at their home in the Cotswolds.

“You don’t have to prove [anything] to me, ever,” David tell her. “You could make a cheese sandwich and we’d be proud of you, to be clear.”

Breaking down in tears, Victoria replies:, “Let’s be honest, I couldn’t actually make a cheese sandwich very well.”