Victoria Beckham's much-anticipated new Netflix documentary series has just dropped, and with it, a host of new details and insights about the star and her family.
Aptly named ‘Victoria Beckham’, the three-part doc takes a rare behind-the-scenes look into the Spice Girl's life as a fashion designer, popstar, wife and mother. And aside from interviews and scenes with David, Brooklyn and the rest of the kids, we get to learn more about Victoria's mum, dad and siblings, who have largely remained out of the limelight, than ever before.
Who are Victoria Beckham's parents?
For many of us, the documentary will be the first time we've been introduced to Victoria's parents. Jackie and Anthony ‘Tony’ Adams make a rare appearance in the doc and even allow the cameras into their Hertfordshire home.
The couple got married in 1970 and share three children, including daughter Louise, son Christian, and of course, Victoria.
Much has been made of Victoria's humble beginnings — we've all seen the meme from David Beckham's 2023 Netflix documentary ‘Beckham’ where David forces her to reveal that her dad drove her to school in a Rolls-Royce after Victoria claimed they both grew up working class.
However, her parents are indeed hard grafters. When they met, Jackie was working as an insurance clerk and hairdresser, and Anthony was an electronics engineer. But by the 1980s, they had established their own electronics supply company. “My dad started with nothing," she explains in the documentary. "He used to sit me and my brother and sister in like a little production line. We would build things. Plugs and electrical things.”
She's previously spoken about the hard-working values that her parents have instilled in her: "My dad worked really hard to have the money for us to have a nice house. My family brought me up telling me I could achieve absolutely anything. Whenever I said I can’t do it, my dad, he just wouldn’t hear it."
That drive and resolve has powered her throughout her career as an international pop star, parent and now fashion designer, with David commenting in the series that Victoria gets her ‘determination’ from her father. Entrepreneurship obviously runs in the family, with Victoria owning not only her eponymous fashion business, but Victoria Beckham Beauty, too.
We get to catch a glimpse into Victoria's childhood home in the series, as Tony and Jackie still live in the same house in Goffs Oak, Hertfordshire, that Victoria and her siblings were raised in. “My parents still live in the house that I grew up in", she explains in one episode. "When they bought that house, it was a shell. My dad built it himself.
“He had this dream and he was going to do everything that he could to create the perfect living environment for his family.”
The couple are obviously very proud of their designer daughter, keeping a Spice Girls memorabilia collection in their shed that includes 3,000 scrapbooks.
We get to see how close Victoria is with her parents and how supportive they are of each other when Jackie admits that she struggled watching Victoria be the victim of sexist abuse from the media during the 1990s and 2000s. “It was very hard reading bits in the paper about you,” she says. “They were vicious, weren't they? A lot of the stuff was really, really bad and that was really hard. You were always strong and we, as a family, always knew the truth. We all had faith in you.”
Who are Victoria Beckham's siblings?
While we see never-before-seen photographs of the siblings together when they were young, there aren't any new clips or interviews of the siblings in the documentary footage.
Victoria has a brother, Christian, and a sister, Louise, who has four children: two daughters, Lilly and Tallulah-May, and two sons, Finley and Quincy.
Little is known about either sibling's personal or professional life as they've largely chosen to stay out of the limelight. However, it was reported in 2021 that Louise was a supervisor ushering cars at a Covid-19 testing centre in Essex.
Louise has a public Instagram account where she occasionally shares shots from glitzy industry events alongside her sister, like attending the premiere of David's documentary in 2023. Louise's son Quincy is a talented equestrian, and Finley is an entrepreneur (are you sensing a theme here?), owning his own watch business, Kettlezone.
Earlier this year, Louise shared a selfie of her and Victoria on a night out to mark the designer’s birthday, writing: “Happy birthday @victoriabeckham have an amazing day”, showing that the pair are still as close as ever.
Victoria Beckham is available to watch on Netflix now.
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