Victoria Beckham shares heartbreaking reaction to being weighed by Chris Evans on live TV

Victoria Beckham has recalled the time she was weighed on TV - admitting it “hurt” and criticism around her looks and weights had a damaging impact on her. The extraordinary incident happened on Chris Evans's Channel 4 show TFI Friday in 1999, just months after the then Spice Girls singer had given birth to Brooklyn, her first child with England captain David Beckham.

Evans said: “Is your weight back to normal?” When Victoria said it was, he persisted: “Can I check, do you mind?” before getting her to step on to some scales and remarking: “Eight stone's not bad at all, is it?”

The incident is not shown as part of Victoria’s new Netflix series but is still readily available to view online and both she and her husband David are critical about it. David said: "People felt it was okay to criticise a woman for her weight, for what she's doing, for what she's wearing. You know, there were a lot of things happening in TV then, that won't happen now, that can't happen now.”

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Victoria added: “I was weighed on national television when Brooklyn was six months old. Get on those scales on television. Have you lost the weight? You know, and we laugh about it and we joke about it, when we're on television. But I was really, really young, and that hurts.”

The couple go on to say how constant criticism or comment about her looks and weight in the Nineties and early noughties had a long lasting effect. David said: “My Victoria, that I knew, sits at home in a tracksuit, smiling, laughing, having a glass of wine. That started to go purely because the criticism that she was getting.”

Victoria added: "I really started to doubt myself and not like myself. Because I let it affect me. I didn't know what I saw when I looked in the mirror. Was I fat was I thin, I don't know. You lose all sense of reality. I was just very critical of myself. I didn't like what I saw.

“I've been everything from Porky posh to skinny posh. I mean, you know, it's been a lot, and that's hard. I had no control over what was being written about me, pictures that were being taken. And I suppose I wanted to control that, you know.

“I could control it with the clothing. I could control my weight, and I was controlling it in an incredibly unhealthy way. When you have an eating disorder, you become very good at lying. And I was never honest about it with my parents.

"I never talked about it publicly. It really affects you when you're being told constantly you're not good enough, and I suppose that's been with me my whole life.”

* Three-part series Victoria Beckham is out now on Netflix.

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