Victoria Beckham Recalls Being Forced to Weigh Herself on TV After Giving Birth: ‘Can You Imagine That Nowadays?’

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Crossing the line. Victoria Beckham is recalling all the outrageous things she was asked to do as a celebrity in the ‘90s — including weighing herself on national TV after giving birth to her son Brooklyn.“I went on a TV show with [host] Chris Evans many years ago and I’d just had Brooklyn and lost a lot of weight after,” Beckham, 48, told Vogue Australia in an interview published Tuesday, June 28. “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 that nowadays?”The recently resurfaced interview, which was conducted in 1999, involved talk show host Evans, 56, asking the former Spice Girl about her fitness routine after welcoming her and husband David Beckham’s first child.“A lot of girls want to know because you look fantastic again, how did you get back to your shape after birth?” the radio personality asked the model, to which she replied, “I’m really lazy.

I don’t go down to the gym or anything.”After refusing to take her word for it, Evans requested the singer to step on a scale to “prove” her weight loss, to which Victoria proclaimed, “This is horrible.”“Eight stones [112 lbs.] not bad at all, is it?” Evans said to the audience after the fashion designer reluctantly weighed herself in front of them.“I’ve had ‘Porky Posh,’ I’ve had ‘Skeletal Posh,’” she revealed to Vogue regarding the conversations surrounding her weight that occurred at the time. “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.”In May, the England native opened up about how her own relationship with her body had changed over the years, telling Grazia that