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Beckham says being married is ‘hard work’
David Beckham has said he has learned to ignore the negative things that are said about his family, as he admitted that his marriage to Victoria is “hard work”.
In an interview with Australian TV show The Sunday Project, he said: “I’ve grown to ignore some of the negative stuff that is said.
“I think if you know each other well, if you know you’ve got great friends and great family behind you, the thing we have to do is protect our children and we are very proud of the family.”
Asked about the key to his 19-year marriage to the fashion designer, he said: “I think marriage is always about hard work.
“Your children, they want your time and they deserve your time and we are hard working and we feel that is the right way to bring up our children to prove and to show to them you have to work really hard to be successful.
“We have been married for a long time now. We recently did a Vogue front cover which was all about Victoria’s 10 years in fashion.
“Obviously in her business world to be on the front cover of Vogue was a huge thing.
“But to be married for the amount of time that we have, it’s always hard work, everybody knows that but you make it work.
“You make difficult situations like travelling away, being away from each other, you make it work.”
He also discussed the couple’s children – sons Brooklyn, 19, Romeo, 16, and Cruz, 13, and daughter Harper, 7 – saying: “I’m a softie, I know I’m slightly stricter with the boys than I am with Harper.
“To be honest, the boys rib me about it all the time.”
Beckham was speaking to the programme before joining the Duke and Duchess of Sussex in Australia for the Invictus Games for injured service personnel.