Victoria Beckham Finally Reveals Why She Never Smiles On The Red Carpet

Victoria Beckham is finally explaining why she spent decades looking so serious on the red carpet and it turns out, there’s a perfectly stylish reason. In her new three-part Netflix docuseries Victoria Beckham, the 51-year-old designer and former Spice Girl revealed that her famously “miserable” expression wasn’t about attitude but about angles. “I’ve looked miserable for all these years because when we stand on the red carpet, this guy has always gone on the left,” she said, pointing to husband David Beckham.

She went on to explain that smiling from her right side didn’t work for her. “Now I didn’t realize that when I smile, which I do, I smile from the left ‘cause if I smile from the right, I look unwell. Consequently, I’m smiling on the inside, but no one ever sees it, so that’s why I look so moody,” she said.

The docuseries, which begins streaming on Netflix on October 9, takes fans deeper into Victoria’s world, from her awkward childhood to her rise as “Posh Spice,” her struggles in fashion, and her drive to make her family proud. 

In the trailer, she becomes emotional while talking about her career. “I want my kids and David to be proud of me,” she says. “It’s taken so long to get to this point. I’m not gonna let it slip through my fingers again.”

Victoria’s vulnerability also carries into her Elle cover story for October 2025, where she admits that the documentary forced her to open up in a way she never has before. “There were rumors right at the beginning: Was this a vanity project, was my husband bailing me out?” she said. “That wasn’t about opinion. That was fact. My business was struggling. I suppose I have really opened myself up for the first time, and there’s a vulnerability there.”

She added that filming the series while managing her fashion empire was a juggling act. “I had to leave my vanity at the door,” she told the magazine, “because every time they were following me at work, I had a job to do. I couldn’t think about the fact there were cameras there because I was preparing for a show. One minute we’re creating the collection, picking fabrics, casting the models. ‘Is this the right flooring? What’s the show music like?’ There was so much going on that I had to turn a blind eye to the fact that they were there. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have gotten anything done. I was like, ‘Guys, I’ve got a day job to be getting on with.’”