'''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.
Biography
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.
Victoria Adams married the ex-Manchester United and former England captain and current Real Madrid footballer David Beckham, on July 4 1999, with whom she has three sons: Brooklyn Joseph (born March 4 1999), Romeo (born September 1 2002), and Cruz David (born February 20 2005).
Despite being one of the most famous celebrities in Britain, and having all her music reach the top ten (the only solo Spice to do so), Victoria Beckham's career as a solo artist is largely considered to have been a commercial failure. She is the only ex-Spice Girl not to have had a UK number one single as a solo artist: "Out of Your Mind" (2000) at number 2 being the closest that she came to the accolade. Her debut album reached number 10 in the UK album chart. The album featured the much talked about 'Every Part Of Me'. The song was co-written by Victoria and was dedicated to her son, Brooklyn. The track also featured Brooklyn at the start, his 'part' was an off-chance recording which took place during a break during a recording session.
Her début solo single, 'Not Such An Innocent Girl', was released in October 2001, and she faced competition from Kylie Minogue's "Can't Get You Out Of My Head". Victoria, most likely was never going to beat Kylie, but she gave the project huge promotion and the record had an expensive and sophisticated video. During promotion however Victoria wore a
