Tom Bower has mastered the art of writing unauthorised biographies. This book shocked me because I realised I forgot most of the Beckham scandals I previously read in magazines or online. How they managed to rise from those scandals is beyond me. However, it also shocked me to see how clueless and ignorant Victoria actually is. Before this book, Victoria seemed like the mastermind, master manipulator of news and the family image, but she cannot even give an interview without even contradicting what she said a paragraph earlier. David Beckham was talented, and I think it’s a shame that he was deceived/convinced into ditching his football career in Europe, because Victoria wanted to relaunch her dead and suffering career. After having finished this book, one question remains: Was it all worth it? Was the fame worth all the unhappiness, all the struggle to keep up an image of a happy marriage? I guess it was not.
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