Victoria Beckham shares pain of being bullied while revealing plea to daughter Harper, 12
Posted by  badge Boss on Nov 13, 2023 - 12:20AM
Victoria Beckham has shared her hopes that her daughter would always help a bullied child (Picture: Victoria Beckham/Instagram)

has pleaded with her daughter Harper Seven to always be kind as she recalled being bullied as a child.

The former Spice Girl, guru and wife of has had an incredible life, but found things at .

Victoria has now by reflecting on her time at school, and sharing her hope that Harper, 12, would help someone going through the same thing.

The mum-of-four, who also has Brooklyn, 24, Romeo, 21, and Cruz, 18, , shared a photograph of herself and her only daughter, along with some advice.

‘This #AntiBullyingWeek, remember to always be the kindest in the classroom.

‘Kisses Harper Seven … I love u so much (sic).’

The star was ‘bullied a lot at school’ and has told Harper to ‘call out if anyone is being bullied’ (Picture: Victoria Beckham/ Instagram)

She went on: ‘I was bullied a lot at school, and I often tell Harper how important it is to call out if anyone is ever being bullied – especially if there’s ever another little girl on her own in the playground.

‘Because that was once her mummy.’

She said she was ‘so proud to raise a strong and caring daughter,’ sharing a series of photos of her with her little girl.

Speaking in 2020, Victoria said she was ‘an awkward teenager’ who ‘didn’t have a huge amount of friends.’

‘And looking back I recognise that I was bullied at times,’ she told Vogue Australia.

The star has raised her only daughter to be kind after both she and David Beckham were taragets of hate (Picture: Rex/Shutterstock)
The footballer spoke about the horrific treatment he experienced after the 1998 World Cup in his Netflix documentary (Picture: Shutterstock)

Victoria has also shared her fury at the ‘bullies’ who targeted husband David after England were eliminated from the 1998 World Cup, with massive vitriol aimed at him by people who blamed his red card for their loss.

Following the match, a pub hanged an effigy of Becks outside its premises and during Manchester United’s first away game the following season, at West Ham, the team bus was pelted with stones and pint glasses.

Speaking in the new , she said: ‘I mean, the absolute hate, the public bullying, to another level. He was depressed, absolutely clinically depressed.

‘I still want to kill these people.’

David himself admitted that the experience ‘changed his life’ and left him feeling ‘alone’.

He said in the documentary: ‘‘What I went through was so extreme. The whole country hated me. Hated me. It changed my life. I felt very vulnerable and alone. Wherever I went I got abuse every single day.’