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It\u2019s not a mad preoccupation, but sometimes I imagine what it would feel like to dance with my kids at their weddings, should they choose to have them. Floor cleared, just us, arms around each other, swaying to maybe Powderfinger\u2019s Sunsets (not that I\u2019m taking over already).<\/p>\n
A few minutes to feel my heart bursting. To run a fast mental montage of them in bassinets, prep uniforms, caravans, graduation gowns. To send them a psychic message that they better be appreciative, proactive, generous spouses who never say, \u201cWater\u2019s boiling, should I add the pasta?\u201d<\/p>\n
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Victoria Beckham with son Brooklyn in London in 2023.AP<\/p>\n
Which is why I found myself both sympathetic and quite cross reading Brooklyn Beckham\u2019s burn-the-house-down Instagram diatribe this week.<\/p>\n
Look, some of it landed with me. Growing up as a nepo baby as part of a \u201cperformative\u201d family brand could be anxiety-inducing \u2013 all those hyper-styled photoshoots \u2013 and good on Brooklyn for doing something more head-turning than roasting a chook on TikTok.<\/p>\n
But I hated how he weaponised his dance with his mother Victoria at his 2022 wedding. In Brooklyn\u2019s words, Victoria \u201chijacked\u201d a planned boogie with his bride Nicola Peltz and \u2013 this is somehow both funny and ick \u2013 danced \u201cvery inappropriately on me\u201d.<\/p>\n
At the time, not much was said about this mother-son moment, other than that they twirled to Marc Anthony. I pictured Brooklyn maybe dipping his mum, a nice sign to the 500 guests that he valued her for, I don\u2019t know, pushing him out of her body and raising him to have manners and knowing not to overdo leather jackets. It did not have Lambada vibes.<\/p>\n
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From left: Romeo, David, Cruz, Brooklyn and Victoria Beckham at a premiere in London in 2013.Getty<\/p>\n
Now, amid their famous but mysterious family feud, Brooklyn\u2019s suggesting his mum\u2019s a creep who \u201chumiliated\u201d him via dance. For clarity, this is the same fella who got a \u201cmama\u2019s boy\u201d tatt on his chest in 2018.<\/p>\n
How much would you give to see a video of the dance? Someone must have it. Let\u2019s start a Go Fund Me. I mean, Victoria is no Ryan Gosling on the D-floor, so I can\u2019t see how her \u201cWannabe\u201d choreography could be offensive rather than fun.<\/p>\n
What I can see is Lady Vic now, at home, nursing a hot lemon water and her humiliation. Not by the internet \u2013 she\u2019s survived way worse \u2013 but by the claim that a moment she treasured was awful for her son.<\/p>\n
That would hurt so much.<\/p>\n
Related Article Just last week Psychology Today wrote<\/a> weddings are one of the most emotionally charged transitions for parents because they formalise a shift you can feel but can\u2019t quite articulate. You\u2019re no longer central but not irrelevant either.<\/p>\n Industry surveys back that up<\/a>, with about six in 10 parents reporting mixed emotions on their child\u2019s wedding day. Joy braided tightly with pride, nostalgia and loss. All of that is why small, symbolic moments like dances and a shout-out in a speech really matter.<\/p>\n We understand this when it\u2019s a father dancing with his daughter. The room goes quiet. People lose their shit. No one asks whose moment it really is.<\/p>\n With the Beckham dance, sure, there was probably an element of ego and showing off \u2013 I\u2019m here with my boy, look, everyone \u2013 but it was also a public acknowledgement from a son that his mum\u2019s invisible, relentless work mattered.<\/p>\n Related Article Victoria Beckham has been derided in every era of her life, from Spice Girl to WAG to standing by her man amid affair reports. I felt bored by her humourless rigidity on her Netflix show, but whatever \u2013 I respect that she\u2019s built two headline careers from absolutely nothing and kept her family together for decades.<\/p>\n So if Victoria wanted to snuggle into her son\u2019s neck on his big day, if she wanted him to hold her, lovely. She was making a new memory as her firstborn, her hothouse baby, moved from her orbit to husbanding.<\/p>\n Maybe one day Brooklyn will feel the thunderclap realisation of how hugely parents love their kids. Maybe he\u2019ll appreciate that the dance he\u2019s reframed as embarrassing was Victoria\u2019s version of what I imagine for my kids.<\/p>\n A few minutes to say without speaking, \u201cI got you here. We\u2019re fabulous. Now go.\u201d<\/p>\n Kate Halfpenny is the founder of Bad Mother Media.<\/p>\n The Opinion newsletter is a weekly wrap of views that will challenge, champion and inform your own. Sign up here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Save<\/p>\n You have reached your maximum number of saved items.<\/p>\n![\"David](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/44a2c026fb4eddd502b24448a5efce17f62d3497.jpeg\")
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