But when she thought about it, Victoria realized Beckham took her out of her comfort zone, allowing viewers to see a new side of her.
“When you put a control freak in a situation where she’s not in control, of course that’s quite uncomfortable,” the 49-year-old reflected of filming the Netflix series. “But I think people then saw the real me. If I’d been all over it in a controlling way—’How do I look from this angle?’—maybe the outcome would’ve been very different.”
Instead, the fashion designer took a step back and allowed her husband of 24 years—with whom she shares sons Brooklyn, 24, Romeo, 21, and Cruz, 18, as well as daughter Harper, 12—to take center field, something for which he was appreciative.
“She kind of left me to it, in all honesty,” David told E! News of Victoria’s involvement in the series at the show’s October premiere in London. “She’s obviously very supportive, like she’s always been throughout our whole marriage and time together. But she knew that this is my thing—but obviously it’s our thing because it’s about our family as well, and our lives together.”
And to see more of the family’s life together in photos, keep reading.