Marriage Survived and Thrived After Scandal
Internationally renowned pop star meets the planet’s sexiest soccer player. What could go wrong?
When Victoria and David Beckham got together more than 20 years ago, they defined “power couple.” Posh and Becks had the world at their feet, canada goose jacket outlet him almost literally, and their glam quotient quickly exploded past the confines of their native England, making them a full fledged global thing.
The former Victoria Adams first spied the stud who would become her husband in 1997 while hanging out, as members of the Spice Girls would have no problem doing, in the Manchester United players’ lounge.
“While the other football players stand at the bar drinking with their mates, you will see David standing aside with his family. (He’s not even in the first team at this stage are the famous one.) And he has such a cute smile,” Victoria wrote in 2016 in a letter to her 18 year old self for British Vogue. “You, too, are close to your family, and you will think how similar he feels to you. He’s going to canada goose outlet online uk ask for your number. (He still has the London to Manchester plane ticket on which you wrote it.)”
Beckham joined Manchester United as a 16 year old trainee in 1991 but when he met his future wife, he was still poised on the brink of being a household name. The Spice Girls had become an overnight sensation after the release of “Wannabe” in 1996, so indeed, Posh Spice was the more famous of the two. I just waved from the other side of the bar,” David recalled, noting that he actually blew it on that particular day by not asking her out.
A week later, Victoria and a fellow Spice Girl attended another game, and he made sure to get her number in the lounge afterward that time. She wrote it down on the aforementioned plane ticket, he called her the next day and drove down to London later that same night to canada goose clearance see her.
As it turned canada goose store out, they canada goose factory sale had grown canadian goose jacket up 15 minutes away from each other in working class canada goose outlet shop families and both of them had planned to be big stars.
They welcomed son Brooklyn Beckham on March 4, 1999, and married on July 4, 1999, at a castle in Ireland. Neville, whom Beckham had revealed his marital intentions to several years prior, served as best man.
The bride and groom wore (two) matching outfits and sat atop his and her gold thrones. Victoria said “I do” in Vera Wang canada goose outlet store uk and changed into Antonio Berardi for the reception.
“That canada goose outlet uk sale was pretty bold. Victoria’s [party dress] was pretty nice. Mine, I’m like what was I thinking?” Beckham poked fun at himself last year on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs. “I look like the guys out of Dumb Dumber when https://www.fcvfrankfurt.de they went to that party and wore those ridiculous outfits. I even had a top hat in purple. Unbelievable. What was I thinking?”
The following year, with the Spice Girls more or canada goose outlet jackets less disbanding after a few wildly successful years, Victoria went solo and released a hit single, “Out of Your Mind.” After that.
Her debut album, Victoria Beckham, sold a modest 50,000 copies upon its release in October 2001, and though she planned on releasing a follow up and continued to have her singles chart, she was one and done. The canada goose outlet nyc Spice Girl reunion rumors began the second the group split up, but otherwise the erstwhile Posh Spice focused canada goose outlet on fashion and her young family instead, and canada goose outlet new york city the Beckhams canada goose outlet parka welcomed son Romeo on Sept. Victoria contacted Loos, warning her to back off, the uk canada goose story claimed.
So, a few months shy of the Beckhams’ fifth wedding anniversary, the British tabloids were having their own field day canada goose uk shop falling all over themselves to cover the increasingly explosive cheating allegations, which blew up after Loos’ brother claimed his sister had “confirmed” to him that she’d had an affair with the soccer star in Spain.
Confirmed how? Well, she said so.
“Rebecca phoned home early this morning. I am overwhelmed with canada goose outlet store shock,” Loos’ brother John Charles told the Daily Mail in April 2004. He continued, “Rebecca was upset when she parted company with David and Victoria last year. She became very down and cried a lot. At times she canada goose outlet in usa looked heartbroken. I thought it was because of professional reasons. But now I am beginning to understand there must have been more to it.”
At the time, Victoria had reportedly packed up her sons and flown to Switzerland, and David was planning to join her from Madrid immediately.
People speaking for the family said the trip was a long planned family vacation with her parents and his mother, not a hasty escape from the public eye.
“During the past few months I have become accustomed to reading more and more ludicrous stories about my private canada goose outlet life,” David Beckham said in a statement responding to Loos’ brother’s story. “What appeared this morning is just one further example. The Canada Goose Coats On Sale simple truth is that I am very happily married. I have a wonderful wife and two very special kids. There is nothing any third party can do to change these facts.”
Later that month, in a joint deal with News Corp owned Sky Television and News of the World that netted her a reported $600,000 for exclusive rights to serialize her story, Rebecca Loos told her long tale to Sky One’s Kay Burley, calling Beckham (via the Daily Mail) cheap canada goose uk a “generous lover” and saying they had been sexting up to just two weeks prior to the whole story getting out.
“I don’t expect any sympathy from [Victoria] at all,” said Loos, who had been working in sports PR for SFX, the company that managed Beckham, when she was assigned to his staff in Madrid.
“I think it’s bad enough for me to do what I have done without me expecting any words of sympathy,” Loos continued. “I really hope that they get through it. I think the problems were in their marriage long before I came into the picture. I in no way intended to break up their marriage especially when there are young children involved. I hope they stay together.”
Asked about the couple’s stated intention to get lawyers involved, Loos replied, “What are they consulting their lawyers for? What can they do? I think they have worked very hard at getting the image they have and I think they will do everything they can to maintain it.
“So whether that involves having happy shots taken or calling their lawyers it’s up to them. I am 100 percent sure of what I am talking about, there no doubt in my mind I have no reason to lie should I? I am just here to tell you my experience. He knows the truth and I know the truth.”.
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