Victoria Beckham
Victoria Caroline Beckham ( born April 17, 1974 in Goff's Oak, Hertfordshire; nee Adams) is a British singer, songwriter, author and designer. She has served as a member of the girl group Spice Girls and as the wife of British soccer star David Beckham gained wider notoriety.
- 3.1 Studio albums
- 3.2 Singles
Life
Musical career
Beckham became known as Posh Spice as a member of the Spice Girls. After the dissolution of the Spice Girls in 2001, she launched a solo career, but was less successful than her former bandmates. From their album Victoria Beckham ( 2001) they coupled the singles Not Search from An Innocent Girl and A Mind of Its Own. It also published together with the True Steppers and Dane Bowers the single Out of Your Mind. Newer songs appeared on the DVD The ' Réal ' Beckhams that came out including the UK Top 3 hit Let Your Head Go / This Groove in early 2004. Out of Your Mind reached No. 2 and has sold more than 300,000 times. In early 2006, she published her second solo album, Open Your Eyes on the internet.
2007 gave the Spice Girls their reunion known and announced a world tour that began in December 2007 and ended on February, 2008 in Toronto.
Acting Career
After her acting career with the film Spice World - The film had begun, offered her a role as Tom Cruise 2006 Alien Bride in the Scientology film The thetan on, but what Beckham refused.
In February 2007 it was reported that they on the American television channel NBC their own reality show (Victoria Beckham: Coming to America ) was obtained, which shows her and her family during the procession from Madrid to Los Angeles. The original agreement provided six episodes of 30 minutes each, but was reduced to a one-hour special broadcast, the broadcast led to criticism in the U.S. media. Early July 2007, Beckham was seen in a guest role in American telenovela Ugly Betty, in which she played herself.
Career as a model
As of 2009, Beckham worked as a model for the Italian brand Armani for which they presented particular lingerie.
Designer career
In 2000, Victoria was on the catwalk for Maria Grachvogel guest model. In 2004, she developed a signature jeans collection, and other collections for Rock and Republic under the title "VB Rocks ". Your fashion always wears their logo: a crown with initials dVb. In 2005 she brought out the perfume Intimately Beckham with her husband David. There is now a second fragrance of the couple's name Signature. In September 2006, Beckham founded her own label "DVB Style" and ended its association with Rock and Republic. 2010 was the SUV manufacturer Land Rover announced that Beckham will are responsible for an interior design of the beginning of July for the first time announced Range Rover Evoque to make the model even more attractive for female customers. End of December 2010 it introduced its first collection of bags on the market. On March 26, 2013 their website was gelaunched with a new online shop and brought the new clothes line "Icon" on the market.
Under their names published two books. Her first book, an autobiography called Learning to fly (ISBN 978-0-14-100394-8 ), already appeared in 2001. The book landed in America # 3 on the book charts and was translated into several languages. In October 2006, published a second book: That an extra half an inch: hair, heels and everything in between, ISBN 978-0-7181-4991-8, ( to German That certain something ). The book came in the Sunday Times Book Charts at # 2
Commitment
Since 2008, she supported a campaign of the designer Marc Jacobs skin cancer. To this end, Jacobs designed a T-shirt, on the front of which she is depicted naked along with the slogan " Protect The Skin You're In ". Since February 2008, the T-shirts in favor of skin cancers using can be purchased in stores by Jacobs.
Private life
Victoria Beckham, nee Adams, married on July 4, 1999, soccer star David Beckham at the Castle in Ireland Luttrellstown closed to the public. The rights to their wedding photos sold the pair to the magazine OK!. After Diana, Princess of Wales died, the couple was in England as a substitute for the press and the public interest. The Beckhams have three sons; Brooklyn (* 1999), Romeo (* 2002) and Cruz (* 2005); and a daughter, Harper (* 2011), with whom they live in Los Angeles since 2008. The end of 2006 it was announced that her son Romeo suffers from epilepsy. Because, among other things flash can trigger an epileptic seizure, the Beckhams asked the press to consideration of their second son. Press officials said then to try to use therefore no longer flash.
To Beckham ancestors heard Carl Heinrich pledges ( 1819-1876 ). This came from Heilbronn and came to London in 1845, where he was a revolutionary in the field of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
Trivia
- In the British media Beckham is titled as a member of the " WAGs " ( Wives and Girlfriends, designation of the players' wives in England).
- In early January 2008, she was the style critic Richard Blackwell to " worst-dressed woman in 2007 " awarded and thus leads the annual published by him Blackwell list.
- Throughout the year 2008, the American fashion magazine Elle, the issue was with Victoria Beckham on the cover (January 2008), the biggest selling ( 413,000 copies). January is according to the American media and fashion magazine WWD traditionally one of the weakest months pad, so this record is particularly outstanding.
- Victoria Beckham was seen seven times on the cover of fashion magazine Vogue. Among other things, on the German, the Russian and the British edition.