She recently celebrated the tenth anniversary of her eponymous brand with a tongue-in-cheek video sending up some historic outfit choices – and joked that her microphone was sometimes switched off during her singing career.
Now Victoria Beckham has offered a further glimpse of her surprisingly self-deprecating sense of humour on her own online video channel.
The YouTube account will go live today with a seven-minute video documenting her recent trip to New York for the launch of a new fashion collaboration with Reebok.
The Spice Girl-turned-fashion designer has promised the channel will offer an ‘opportunity to see the real me’ – including everything from candid family scenes to revealing insights into her beauty regime.
‘It’s a dump’: Victoria Beckham in her New York hotel room. The Spice Girl-turned-fashion designer has promised the YouTube channel will offer an ‘opportunity to see the real me'
It certainly has some surprises. Out and about, the mother-of-four is rarely anything less than impeccably turned-out, but when the doors are closed, it’s a very different state of affairs.
At one point in the video, she opens her bedroom door at New York’s The Mark Hotel and warns her guests: ‘My room is a dump.’
The suite, complete with kitchen, is littered with bedding, discarded slippers, water bottles and all the trappings of a very busy visit.
The king-size bed is unmade, a suitcase lies open in one corner, and in the bathroom there are multiple make-up bags – one branded with the initials V B – as well as cotton wool pads and countless bottles of lotion.
Victoria’s secret: The ‘edge brush’ wielded by stylist Ken Paves. It’s not exactly a toothbrush – even if it looks like one – but a tiny implement used by stylists to tame fine, fly-away locks around the hairline
Victoria then shows the camera two wardrobes of clothes before unveiling the rest of the chaos.
She says: ‘You can see why I drive my husband crazy, because he is super-super-tidy.
‘I’m a germophobe, everywhere has got to be super-super-clean. I mean I will disinfect everywhere, but I am a bit messy, what are you going to do?’
As she walks into the bedroom, she adds: ‘This would be giving David a panic attack right now, a full-on panic attack.’
In a 2015 interview David admitted: ‘I can’t settle in at night before everything is tidy.
