Victoria Beckham

Victoria Caroline Beckham, born Victoria Caroline Adams to a wealthy British family on April 17, 1974, is best known as Posh Spice of the 1990s British girl band the Spice Girls.

She grew up in Hertford, with her parents, Jackie and Tony, and brother Christian and sister Louise. Her parents ran a successful electrical wholesale business, but the wealth that Beckham grew up with was more of an embarrassment to her than a blessing. As a child she would ask her father not to drop her off in front of the school so that no one would see her in the family’s Rolls-Royce.

Beckham played in a band in school and then went on the study drama at the Jason Theater School and dance and modeling at the Laine Arts Theater College .

In 1996 Beckham saw an ad in the entertainment magazine The Stage that was looking for five women who could sing and dance to form a group. She auditioned and even though she sung off-key (by her admission), she was accepted into the group that later became known as the Spice Girls.