Victoria Beckham: Snapshot
- Name
- Victoria Beckham
- Birth Date
- 04/17/1974
- Birth Place
- Hertfordshire, England
Posh went on to become a part of another British export: the Beckhams – England's other royal family with husband, soccer star David Beckham. "Posh and Becks" became a world-renown fashion-fixated, goal-scoring, baby-bearing duo. As David set hairstyle trends and dominated soccer with Manchester United and Real Madrid, Posh focused on her fashion ambitions.
In 2007, David signed a five-year contract with the Los Angeles Galaxy, moving the Beckhams stateside, while the new L.A. mum reunited with the Spice Girls for a greatest-hits album and a world tour.
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Victoria Beckham: Five Fun Facts
- Victoria Beckham joked that her husband David "likes to borrow my knickers," and goes on to say that she would like to give him a Gucci thong of his own, according to BBC News. David tells PEOPLE in 2005 of the thong, "I wouldn't get them past my knees!"
- Before they were Spice Girls, Victoria "Posh" Beckham, Emma "Baby" Bunton and Geri "Ginger" Halliwell all auditioned to be Jet Girl in the 1995 cult hit Tank Girl. Actress Naomi Watts landed the role.
- During a solo performance for BBC Radio in 2001, Victoria Beckham had fruit and vegetables thrown at her when a small group in the crowd was unsatisfied with her vocals. "I can really sing," Beckham insisted to GMTV. "Singing live is something that I will do and is something that I feel I have to do, to prove to everybody I can sing."
- In a 2004 celebrity nativity scene at Madame Tussauds in London, wax figures of Victoria and David Beckham depict the couple as Mary and Joseph. George Bush is one of three wise men; Hugh Grant is a shepherd; and Kylie Minogue is an angel. A Vatican spokesman told the London Times it was "in very poor taste."
- Victoria Beckham wore a fake lip ring during a live solo performance in 2001 that attracted negative criticism from the British Dental Association for setting a bad example to her younger fans. "I had no idea it would cause this much fuss," Beckham tells PEOPLE.
Victoria Beckham: Biography 
- 1980
Seeing Fame
At seven Adams watches the film Fame, a musical following a group of students through their studies at a New York performing arts school. She realizes she wants to be famous and her parents enroll her in Jason Theatre School in Enfield.
- 1994
The Spice Rack
Adams answers an ad seeking "streetwise, outgoing, ambitious" singers in the trade newspaper, The Stage. After 400 women answer the ad placed by pop music entrepreneurs Chris Herbert and his father, Bob, the Herberts choose Adams (aka Posh), Melanie "Scary" Brown, Emma "Baby" Bunton, Melanie "Sporty" Chisholm, and Geri "Ginger" Halliwell. The five rehearse while living in a house rented by the Herberts in London's Maidenhead suburb. In February 1995, the girls split with the Herberts and sign with Simon Fuller, who becomes the svengali behind Spice Girls' success and later the creator of American Idol.
- 1997
Posh & Becks: The Beginning
After attending a Manchester United soccer game, Posh meets English soccer player David Beckham who requests a meeting with the Spice Girl. When Beckham sees the group's "Say You'll Be There" video months earlier, he points to Posh and says, "That's the girl for me and I'm going to get her!" he tells Britain's Sun. "She's my idea of perfection. I knew that if she wanted me, we would be together forever." The two begin dating and attract a great deal of media interest.
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