Victoria Beckham covers the September issue of Vogue Australia. Thoughts on the cover? I’m not opposed to a heavy, dark eye and I understand how it’s popular these days to pair a dark eye with a nude lip, but the combination on Victoria seems… weird. Corpsey. I just want a touch more color on her lips. But I guess it’s sort of funny that Victoria gets the cover of every single international edition of Vogue but she will never, ever get the American Vogue cover. Sigh… poor Posh. Anyway, the interview excerpts are rather charming. Victoria goes out of her way to de-glamourize her image as a jet-setting fashionista:

She is known as one of the world’s most flawless stars who is barely ever seen without perfect make-up or with a hair out of place, but Victoria Beckham claims she isn’t always so glamorous. Instead of heading to a Hollywood hotspot or a five star restaurant at night, the mother-of-four claims she would prefer to relax at home like any other tired parent.

‘Honestly, once the children are in bed I’d rather work or shove on a face pack and pluck my eyebrows,’ revealed the 39-year-old as she appeared in her 10th Vogue magazine issue.

‘By the time Brooklyn’s finally gone to bed, it’s all I’m fit for. Really, we’re much more normal than people think,’ David Beckham’s wife of 14 years told Australian Vogue when she posed on the cover of the September issue.

The former Spice Girl and mother to Brooklyn, 14, Romeo, 10, Cruz, eight, and Harper, two, is more interested in spending time with her husband and kids than anything else, especially now that the famous footballer has retired.

‘We’re all so proud of David,’ said Victoria. ‘Having supported him at clubs all over the world for the past 15 years and seen how he has been an inspiration not just to me and the children but also to millions of people, we are now just really excited at the prospect of spending more time as a family.’

After playing the sport professionally since the age of 17 for clubs in England, America and France, the 38-year-old hung up his boots for good in May. While David is now a man of leisure, the pop star turned designer has kept herself busy carving her own fashionable career. However, she admitted that she suffered from a bad case of stage fright when she presented her first collection to critics.

‘Everyone would file in and act so inscrutable. I’d think: “Um, did anyone like it?” No-one would say anything, so I’d just gabble to fill the embarrassing silences – even to the Japanese, who didn’t understand a word I was saying,’ she told Vogue Australia.

[From The Mail]

I have those days too, and I’m not even a mother. Most nights, I only have the energy to watch Rachel Maddow and pluck my eyebrows. That’s my idea of an exciting night. Of course, I would think of some better things to do if I was in bed with David Beckham every night. Damn, Posh!

Photos courtesy of Vogue Australia.