Victoria Beckham is promoting her fashion line, her makeup collection and probably a dozen other things. This is the year of celebrity makeup lines, isn’t it? Posh is working with Estee Lauder on her makeup line, which is smart – I would imagine it would be very difficult to do a makeup start-up if you are anyone other than Rihanna or a Kardashian-Jenner. Better to just work with an established brand and put your name on it. To promote all of Posh’s projects, she chatted with the Sunday Times about her many blessings, her workout schedule, and her ability to multi-task and delegate. Some highlights:
Her two morning workouts: “I get up quite early, around 6 a.m., and do an hour in the gym before the kids get up, then I give them breakfast and David or I take them to school. I’ll then fit in another hour’s workout before I go to the office. I’m very disciplined, I have to be. It’s really the only time in the day I get to myself. No one comes into the gym, no one follows me in there with a laptop. If I’m standing in the kitchen for too long, then laptops will come floating in my direction. Someone always wants something approved, something signed off. Other than the children no one dares come into the gym.”
Time management: “It’s all about managing time and having a good team of people around you. It’s not easy. I’m a bit of a control freak. I love what I do, and I always want to be the best – whether that’s designing an amazing collection, putting on the best fashion show, creating a make-up collection, being the best mum, the best wife. Luckily I have a brilliant support network that makes everything possible and an assistant who will tell me when I need to stop … I listen to her when she says it’s time to go home and have dinner with David and the kids.”
She eats healthy: “I’m in the fortunate position where it’s easy for me. I can afford to eat well. I expect a lot from my body… and I’m never sick. You have to be kind to your body if you expect a lot from it.”
Smiles & blessings: “I do smile and laugh a lot. Every morning I genuinely wake up and realize how lucky and blessed I am – despite how I often look in pictures! Thankfully because of social media people can now see the images and videos that me and my family choose to post and see us as we are, rather than how others want us to be seen.”
I think doing two non-continuous hours of exercise sounds dumb, but then again, I don’t have kids. Nor do I have a home gym. Maybe if I had a home gym, I would parcel out my workouts throughout the day. That might be nice, actually, except for the problem about showering. I need to shower after a workout, because I’m so sweaty. So what does Posh do in between workout #1 and #2? She’s just sweaty and not caring? Hm. But I agree with her about needing that time to be by herself, with her own thoughts. There’s the physical release of working out, but there’s also the emotional/psychological release of just being able to let your mind wander and decompress for a few hours. It’s really important (for me, at least).
Photos courtesy of WENN, ITV.
I can relate to her working out every morning. I do as well, for an hour. Two seems a bit much. What’s the benefit other than some time to herself.
I work from home with two kids and the schedule makes perfect sense to me. Also, if you have kids, you know you don’t always get to shower exactly when you may want to.
I do hesitate to critique anyone else’s workout – mine works for well for me, what anyone else does it there business BUT I do feel that, for non-athletes, if you’re doing two hours a day every day, you’re not getting the most benefit for your time. It most likely means you’ve hit a plateau. Especially considering that she isn’t doing a tonne of weight training.
If she sits around in an office for the rest of the day and does no housework it is not really that much.
Plus, it is so easy to just spend that off-time on the computer looking at silly stuff on the internet. How is that any better?
I have started working out very hard over the last few months, and I LOVE it. I totally get why Victoria would workout like that-if I could, I would too! I recently hired a personal trainer at a super-small boutique gym, and I’ve gained so much strength and tone as well as losing some weight. I do a mix of strength training, HIIT, and metabolic conditioning 5-6 days a week-I’m usually dead when I leave, but it’s SO worth it. My goal was to give myself a year and then look back and see how far I’ve come-I’m only 3 months in and I already feel so much better-and I REALLY look forward to the workouts, no matter how hard they are. It’s my time-no phone, no email, nothing. My mental health has really benefitted-especially with that dumpster fire giving new meaning to the “White” House.
It’s bloody addictive, isn’t it?
You’re inspiring me!
The new trend for the posh people in London is to make a enormous basement underground for more space, that usually includes a gym. The Beckhams are doing this with their townhouse near Kensington Palace.
Maybe she just goes downstairs and reads a tablet for some of the workout?
Working out gives me time to just focus on my workout and zone out on everything else. Two hours seems like a lot, though.
Her collection with Estee Lauder is crazy expensive but gorgeous.
I don’t think 2 hours per day sounds like a lot. I did more than that back when I was still doing sports in elementary school and I grew up just fine.
Agreed, I don’t understand why so many people are surprised or even outraged by 2h a day? I’d say anything between 45 and 90min is normal. You workout an hour as you start getting into better shape, but once you’ve hit a certain fitness level you need to workout more than 1h to challenge your body, especially if you mainly do cardio. With weight lifting I’d be surprised because you would just add more weights to your workouts, but with cardio you need to go longer.
I’m the same. My research assistant always comes at me with a laptop but Naomi Campbell style! They fly all over the kitchen. Luckily I have a sauna/spa/gym/sex parlour, where no one is allowed. Not even my husband.
*I’m obviously jelly of the gym / multiple assistant combo…*
Morning workouts are the pits but I don’t have kids so I can do them after work or basically whenever I want.
I love her. And I love how honest she is. We all know she’s super disciplined and expects a lot from her body so cheers for admitting it. I can work with that. I’m not her, I don’t have the discipline, I’ll never look like that. But good for her.
Her makeup lines with EL are divine, I want them so much but I have enough stuff and it’s expensive. There’s no reason for me to buy it. But it’s so pretty.
Can’t hate on her for anything she said in the interview. I prefer to work out alone. I like that she acknowledged her privilege when it comes to eating healthy. Even non-organic produce can be pricey.
In London I don’t think it’s that difficult to eat well for little – unless you’re in dire straits but that’s another conversation.
To me, it means that she eats in a goop-style kind of way and has a chef. I think it was on this site that someone put a link to a recipe that litterally – litterally! – had no ingredient that I knew of AND cost, just the one meal, $700… That kind of crap is pricey. Eating stir-fry organic veggies with rice (even quinoa) from Sainsbury’s (local brit supermaket) isn’t.
$700 for one meal is insane! I make pretty good money and the organic stuff is pricey for me. People always wonder why people on food stamps eat so poorly… it’s because your dollar goes further when you eat cheap processed food. The same $5 it would cost for a little bit of produce will get you a few meals instead or lots of Ramen. A no brainer when you’re broke.
…two hours is a lot, depending on what she’s doing. When I was in my early 20’s, I started working out- Pretty hard- two hours every single day. I dropped over 40 pounds and lost my period (5’8″ and went from 160 to 117). There is something called exercise anorexia. So, yes, two hours is a lot.
Now that I’m in my early 30’s with two under two, I can only get 30 minutes a day. I can also find “me” times in other ways throughout the day.
It depends on the workout. I go through periods where I do brisk walking for an hour and then calisthenics and light gymnastics for an hour.
If you would do bodypump or weightlifting for 2 hours, that would be a different thing.
wow, how long did you manage to keep it up?
…it all sounds lovely but I cant get over that news story that the husband is bailing out the fashion line every year…so how is she any different from James Middleton…
I wish, Id probably be able to fit better in my clothes! But yea 45 to 1hr 4 to 6 times a week to keep my sane. It takes effort to get to gym or a studio but once you do, it feels amazing knowing you did something for yourself. Im praying if I have kids, hopefully I can still enjoy some sort of exercise routine in my life… it’s just a little peice if time just focusing on you and it’s such a great feeling.
She posted an insta story recently of Harper reading a book on her lap. In addition to little English accents on kids, there was a silly part about mummy in her underwear. Posh let out a genuine giggle that was terribly endearing. Their family seems truly close and happy, and I hope that’s always the case.
I’m currently reading a book about conspicuous consumption and inconspicuous consumption and societal trends of the last however many years. Her comments reminded me a lot of what the section on inconspicuous consumption talks about- how wealthy people are able to spend money on things that aren’t necessarily visible but that make their lives easier and better- chefs, a home gym, a team that takes care of the daily mundane tasks of life so they can focus their time and energy on preferred (or “essential”) tasks.
I would do one hour of a daily workout and a one hour daily massage (or other pampering treatment) if I were doing her life (or doing my life with her dollars!)
I am guessing she is the kind of person who is always cold and doesn’t sweat. Neither did I when I was her size. You don’t have any fat, nor much muscle either, so sweating is not one of your body’s priorities.
I really do wonder if she still has her eating disorder. People who are naturally thin like Carole on the Real Housewives of NY, say they can eat six cheeseburgers or a salad, and they stay the same size (it is from her instagram), whereas people like Becks and Goopy tend to have weird diets and are actually cold, insomniac, relying on colonics, brittle boned, etc.
Ah well, I love becks and her humor, I hope one of her hours working out is her watching tv with a 1 pound dumbbell or something.
It’s so important to have alone time.