In an interview with Allure <\/strong>for its December 2023 cover story, the fashion designer recalled being “mentally” and “physically” bullied in school, saying she “never fitted in socially.”<\/p>\n “I’ve never really told my story about being the underdog at school. I was bullied — a lot,'” Beckham, said, sharing that she was 11 or 12 at the time. “I never fitted in socially. And when anybody is different, kids can be really mean. I remember being mentally bullied, physically bullied, literally pushed around.”<\/p>\n While she would grow up to become a member of the Spice Girls, the 49-year-old said people would criticize and doubt her potential as a performer.<\/p>\n “I’ve always had to work really hard. At school, I had to work really hard to get less-than-average grades,” Beckham told Allure. “When I was dancing and singing, I had to work really hard to be good, but was never good enough. I was an alright dancer. I was an alright singer. People were very quick to say, ‘You can’t sing.’ I can joke about it better than anybody. I\u2019ll take the mickey out of myself.”<\/p>\n “I mean, obviously, I could sing a little. But I always had to work very hard just to be okay at anything,” she continued, before pointing out that “that’s why the Spice Girls worked: Individually we were underdogs, but collectively we worked.”<\/p>\n Waiting for your permission to load the Instagram Media.<\/p>\n Instagram Media Unavailable<\/strong><\/p>\n Since she was bullied as a child, the Victoria Beckham Beauty founder — who shares kids Brooklyn, 24, Romeo, 21, Cruz, 18, and Harper, 12, with husband <\/strong>David Beckham<\/strong> — shared that she has raised her own children to be kind to other children.<\/p>\n “I have always said to [my daughter] Harper, ‘If you see a little girl sitting on her own in the playground, that was your mum. Go up and talk to that little girl,'” she told Allure.<\/p>\n “My entire school life was a misery, an absolute misery,” Beckham added. “Kids can be bloody horrible. I would never, ever allow my children to treat anybody like that. I know everybody thinks their kids are angels, but my kids are genuinely very kind. That’s the most important thing, isn’t it?”<\/p>\n Ultimately, the mom of four said her childhood experience made her stronger in the long run.<\/p>\n “It gave me a tough skin for what was to come next,” she shared. “I never really talk about it because we had this British tabloid culture. It can be\u2026challenging, shall we say.”<\/p>\n “There were times I felt too self-conscious to sit on the beach with my children because of the attention and the paparazzi,” she added.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/images.toofab.com\/image\/da\/5by4\/2023\/12\/01\/da7c2fc5ff55420db8217961f6b468e8_xs.jpg\")
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