Victoria’s secrets: A toothbrush for her hair, and a messy room
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 selfdeprecating 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 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.
She says: ‘You can see why I drive my husband crazy, because he is super-super-tidy.’ As she walks into the bedroom, she adds: ‘This would be giving David a full-on panic attack.’ She also reveals a surprising secret to her glossy hair – a toothbrush. Her hair stylist, Ken Paves, who has long been a fixture in Victoria’s life, appears in the video showing off the secret tool of his trade, deployed to make last-minute tweaks to the star’s casually undone style.
In fact, it’s not exactly a toothbrush – even if it looks like one – but an ‘edge brush’, a tiny implement used by stylists to tame fine, fly-away locks around the hairline.
And while she is known for following a disciplined diet and exercise regime, when jet lag hits, Victoria has a secret weapon up her sleeve – a bottle of tequila.
But she doesn’t go for any old stuff. Her drink of choice is Don Julio 1942, which retails at €137 a bottle. ‘We are all a little bit jet-lagged,’ she says. ‘So we thought, “Just take the edge off”.’
‘David would have a panic attack’