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Victoria Beckham<\/a> is opening up about a comment from Mel B<\/a>, her former Spice Girls<\/a> groupmate, that upset her.\n<\/p>\n

The fashion designer offers rare insight into her life and career in her eponymous new Netflix docuseries (out now), including revelations about her time with the popular English girl group that also consisted of Mel C, Emma Bunton, and Geri Halliwell.\n<\/p>\n

Spice Girls, which made their debut in 1994, split in 2000, and Beckham turned her attention to her fashion empire before the group reunited for a tour in 2008. “It was good to be back” with the girls, Beckham said, but she recalled an upsetting exchange with Mel B.<\/p>\n

Spice Girls.<\/p>\n

Mike Prior\/Getty<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the girls actually said to me, and it did upset me not too long ago actually \u2014 it was Melanie B who said to me \u2014 \u2018Don\u2019t forget where you\u2019ve come from,'” Beckham recounted. \u201cI have never forgotten where I\u2019ve come from. I have never, ever forgotten that Posh Spice is the reason that I\u2019m sitting here now. She might have been grumpy, but she was actually great.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

While “it was good to celebrate the Spice Girls,” it was ultimately during that tour that Beckham “realized I didn\u2019t belong on stage,” she revealed. “It had been fun, but it wasn\u2019t what I loved anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI knew that to start this new chapter of my life, I had to change,” Beckham said. “Strip the other personas away . . . I became a simpler, more elegant version of myself and I went to work.\u201d And as a celebrity foraying into the fashion space and trying to launch her self-titled fashion brand, \u201cthe likelihood that I was going to become successful was very, very slim,” Beckham said.<\/p>\n

Victoria Beckham in her Netflix docuseries, ‘Victoria Beckham’.<\/p>\n

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But that only “fueled me, to be completely honest,” Beckham added.\n<\/p>\n

The three-part docuseries also features reflections of childhood and motherhood, plus revelations about Beckham’s decades-long struggle with an eating disorder. \u00a0\u201cI was just very critical of myself,” she shares. “I didn\u2019t like what I saw. I\u2019ve been everything from Porky Posh to Skinny Posh.”\n<\/p>\n

“I had no control over what was being written about me, pictures that were being taken, and I suppose I wanted to control that, you know?” Beckham says. “I could control it with clothing, I could control my weight, and I was controlling it in an incredibly unhealthy way.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

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