Victoria Beckham

Victoria Caroline Beckham (born Victoria Caroline Adams on April 17, 1974) is an English celebrity best known for her position in the Spice Girls and her marriage to footballer David Beckham. Victoria is a pop singer, songwriter, fashion designer, model and international tabloid icon. Known also as "Posh Spice" - or, affectionately, "Posh" - a nickname given to her by the BBC's Top of the Pops magazine, Victoria is one of the most celebrated, photographed, criticised and gossiped about celebrities of the modern era.

Victoria Beckham was born in Princess Alexandra Hospital, Harlow in Essex to Anthony William Adams, an electronics engineer, and Jacqueline Doreen Cannon. She was brought up in Goff's Oak, Hertfordshire. She is the eldest of three children. Prior to joining the Spice Girls, Victoria trained as a dancer and had a number of modeling and dancing jobs, and had joined a band in which she was to be the lead singer, but left them in favour of the Spice Girls project. Even though she admits having sung off-key in the audition (claiming the song was in the wrong key for her but 'she can really sing') she was chosen anyway. V...