Victoria Beckham at the premiere of her new Netflix documentary

Victoria Beckham has spoken for the first time about her struggles with an eating disorder while in the public eye.

The former Spice Girls star and fashion designer has long shut down any speculation that she has had issues with eating in the past, but spoke about the subject publicly for the first time in her new Netflix documentary, which premiered on Thursday.

Speaking on camera, Victoria explained that after the birth of her eldest son Brooklyn Peltz Beckham in the late 1990s, she faced a wave of media scrutiny over her appearance, and specifically her weight.

“I was really, really young, and that hurts,” she recalled of that time. “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.”

Victoria continued: “You lose all sense of reality. I’m just very critical of myself. I didn’t like what I saw.”

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