Byline: AMANDA PLATELL
She's as fake as her tan, as brittle as her acrylic nails. One woman writer's provocative view of why the Sisterhood has no sympathy for Mrs Beckham
MY FIRST reaction on hearing that David Beckham may have been playing away with his former PA Rebecca Loos was, who could blame the poor soul? And I was not alone.
If every woman in the country who felt even a shred of sympathy for Victoria gave a tenner, there'd be just about enough to buy a handbag from TopShop.
That, of course, is excluding the women in her immediate family - the omnipresent mother and sister. And there's no escaping them. Just ask David.
I'm afraid the truth is that from Fashion Clothing the moment she burst upon the pop world as the least talented yet most ambitious member of the Spice Girls, Victoria has been anathema to women.
She called herself Posh without a trace of irony and has proved over subsequent years that she is anything but. She once told her mother her ambition was to be as famous as Daz Automatic. Well, you got there in the end, girl, a household name and common to boot.
When she started dating the brilliant yet shy David Beckham, she was like a spider devouring her mate after sex. She consumed him and then fed off his talent and his fame. She's still doing it, and that gets to the crux of why women hate her.
We love feisty, talented, confident women.
We love women who are doing it for themselves. We love women who make great marriages. But we love them because of what they are, not who they're married to.
And since she became Mrs David Beckham, Victoria has been totally parasitic upon his fame. It's no wonder she's fighting tooth and nail to keep this marriage together, because without it what is she? A faded, failed pop star.
EVERYTHING about the Beckhams is for show. Their children's birthday parties are well-publicised advertisements for the perfect family. Even the 'his and hers' tattoos they recently had done on their wrists - his was VB, hers DB - were for public consumption.
Most people don't need to wear labels to prove they're in love. But then Victoria's marriage has always been about packaging the Brand Beckham and about how the world perceives them - not the realities of their own little world.
The most telling comments Posh has made throughout this sad saga - and it is sad whenever a marriage breaks down, especially when there are two children involved - was the day she read about Miss Loos's revelations.
'I can't stand people thinking he's done it,' she wailed. It's not that she couldn't stand the fact that her husband might have been unfaithful to her, she couldn't stand people thinking it.
Because without that marriage and the multimillion pound brand it has become thanks to her ruthless marketing of every shred of their family life, Victoria Beckham is nothing.
'It has wrecked my birthday,' came the second lament. Most wives would have been more worried about an affair wrecking their marriages. Not Victoria.
And when she had a chance to do what most women would in the circumstances - to confront her husband in private, to rant and rave and try to work things out or throw him out - she chose instead to organise the most stomach-turning photo opportunity I have ever seen in my life.
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