Victoria Beckham Calls Out TV Host For Weighing Her On-Air After Giving Birth

Taylor Sakellis
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Say what you want about girl groups, but the Spice Girls were a revelation. Those five British babes paved the way for so many young women to feel empowered. My favorite Spice was always Posh because of her too-cool-for-school attitude, and as someone that was never too cool for anything, I wanted to emulate her.

Sadly, as we know now, women who were at the height of fame in the '90s and early 2000s were subjected to absolutely atrocious treatment from the media, and unfortunately, Mrs. Beckham was not immune.

I will forever feel bad for people who didn't grow up in the '90s — they were truly the best of times!

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Giphy | Spice Girls

Like many women my age, the Spice Girls were a huge part of my childhood! I miss them almost as much as I miss IM chats and calling my friends on my landline phone to their landline phone.

There is something so quintessentially '90s about the iconic British girl group that they will always feel like home to me, and so many other Millenials.

Unlike myself, these ladies have continued to thrive in the decades following Spice-a-mania. While I would gladly switch places with any of them, Posh is truly living every woman's dream.

However, as we all know, nothing is what it seems from the outside.

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In fact, Victoria has undergone a lot of scrutiny and pressure from the media — as most women in Hollywood have — and she recently opened up about a particularly horrifying event.

In the upcoming issue of "Vogue Australia," the mom of four opens up about a truly horrifying incident that happened on the U.K. talk show show "TFI Friday" back in 1999.

I know — it already sounds bad, right?

At the time, the young mom had given birth to her first child, Brooklyn, just two months prior, which led the host, unfortunately named Chris Evans, to ask about her weight.

"A lot of girls want to know, because you look fantastic again, how did you get back to your shape after birth?" he asked.

“Can I check, do you mind?” he asked, before getting her to step on a scale. “Eight stone’s not bad at all, is it?”

Sorry... WHAT?! And we wonder why women who grew up in the '90s have such horrible body image issues now?!

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Giphy | Schitt's Creek

The incident stuck with Victoria, who, as per the Daily Mail, told Vogue: “I went on a TV show with Chris Evans many years ago and I’d just had Brooklyn and lost a lot of weight after. It happened to my mum after her pregnancies. It doesn’t mean you have an eating disorder."

"And he made me stand on the scales to be weighed. Can you imagine doing that nowadays?"

During the same interview, she called out the media's obsession with her weight.

“I’ve had ‘Porky Posh’, I’ve had ‘Skeletal Posh’. After I had Brooklyn, there was a picture pointing to every single part of my body where I had to focus on losing the weight from,” she recalled.

What a nightmare!

h/t: The Daily Mail