Victoria Beckham wants boys to be 'normal kids'

Victoria Beckham will make her domestic debut July 16 when the one-hour special ‘Victoria Beckham: Coming to America’ airs on NBC, but celebrity baby fans shouldn’t get their hopes up for an appearance by her three children with soccer star David Beckham:  Brooklyn, 9, Romeo, 4 and Cruz, 2.  Victoria said that she and David "don’t ever allow the children to be photographed or filmed" and "we like them to be normal kids."

This isn’t a reality show, it’s a documentary about me.  Anything we do professionally, we try to keep the children out of it.  We don’t sort of traipse them up and down the red carpet. 

David and Victoria have been married since 1999. 

Source:  MSNBC

Comments

Michelle on July 10th, 2007

Only when ok magazine pay them enough!

Also hasnt she taken her kids to premieres or sent them to premieres with family members.

PSB on July 10th, 2007

Is this a joke??? I’m sure Victoria is a good mother, but get real lady! Buying your toddler sons diamond jewelry and mini sports cars will not make them normal. Neither will organizing glamorous photo layouts of them in OK Magazine.

If she wants to have normal kids, she should consider not moving to LA and not having a reality show done about her life. It’s such BS.

I’m more inclined to believe people like Julia Roberts, who claim they want normal kids and then move to a ranch in New Mexico. Victoria Beckham either has a warped sense of what makes a normal childhood or she is saying all of this for show.

Alexandra on July 10th, 2007

It’s sad that people critiscize her so much, I think she’s an amazing woman. She’s gorgeous, he’s gorgeous and their kids are adorable and she seems like a wonderful mom. Deff. my fave celeb ever!

Michelle on July 10th, 2007

Seriously when are people are going to give her a break?? Are u saying that she’s the only celeb that buys her sons nice things??
Because that would deff. be very wrong, Brangelina talk about how normal their children yet Shiloh has a $17,000 pacifier! Please, people can say whatever they want about her, but at least recognize that she isn’t alone. She seems like a good mom, isn’t that enough??

Gabriella on July 10th, 2007

Michelle, Brad and Angelina did not buy Shiloh a $17,000 pacifier. It was a gift from a company trying to get publicity for their baby line, which the Jolie-Pitts promptly sent back. Victoria Beckham is full of it and this is coming from someone who actually likes her.

Posh_Fan on July 10th, 2007

Ok first of all, the kids have never done a photoshoot for Ok! Magazine apart from their wedding pictures and that was the wedding shoot, not “Introducing our baby boy”. She has never ever done any other magazine shoots with them ever! Also Brooklyn went to some premeirs few years back but that is with grandparents and he didnt walk the red carpet. Along with that, the boys were never bought diamond earrings or expensive cars. Victoria and David got Brooklyn a Power Wheeler few years back costing about $250 and the media made it out to be $250,000.

As for expensive clothes, the boys are mostly in Adidas which they get for free or Football kits. Dont believe everything you read.

essie on July 10th, 2007

I don’t care about her one way or the other but why does the woman always pose when being photographed? She looks so artificial. It’s really funny.

She and her hubby are trying to “make it” in America. Well, he plays soccer, which isn’t exactly a top sport in the States and all she does is shop. We’ll see how she’s received over here. If that one-hour special next week fails to bring in ratings, I have a feeling they will be toast and banished to the “D” list!!

But, as mentioned, I don’t care one way or the other.

(Okay. I know she was in some sort of girl group years ago and they are doing a comeback tour. [Excuse me while I laugh at the idea of a bunch of old women doing bubble gum music])

Michelle on July 10th, 2007

Thank you Posh_Fan. I’m sorry about the pacifier comment, I thought they bought it for her. As for Victoria, everything Posh_Fan has said is true, she doesn’t parade her kids around Hollywood, and she doesn’t use them for publicity. She has enough of that on her own. I wish everyone would stop giving her such a hard time.

suspicious on July 10th, 2007

I don’t believe her for a second. She is known to tip off the paparazzi as to where she is going to be with her family, especially around the time when David was outed as cheating on her with his assistant and some other woman. She’s a complete and utter famewhore. Her face isn’t real anymore along with her boobs. There are places you can go to be private with your family awnd she doesn’t. she wants to be famous in america SO BADLY, you can tell she wanted the spice girl reunion because her other projects aren’t that great.

shaina on July 10th, 2007

My parents bought me gold jewelry when I was a baby and for my 16th birthday they bought me a Mercedes. It was the same with my sisters. Are we not normal just because we had expensive things?? How about women who sign their kids up for baby modeling and pageants??? Are they bad mothers too? Or letting a Photo company use your baby’s picture as an example?? Get real people and give her a break! She is a great mom and manages to look amazing at the same time instead of looking like a tired “mom” who is all about her kids and lets herself go.

PSB on July 10th, 2007

OMG seriously, nobody here is saying Victoria Beckham is not a good mother. In fact, most people here have said she IS a good mom. The problem is with the statement she made. There is a HUGE difference between the way she raises her kids and the way people like Jennifer Garner or Julia Roberts raise their kids. I think she’s a devoted parent, but I disagree that the way she raises her kids is normal.

I’m sorry, but her lifestyle is not “normal”–even for a celebrity. I don’t have a problem with the fact that she has money, but I think she’s over-the-top, even for a famous person. She is always overdressed, overdone, etc and I think she puts a lot of emphasis on material things (for herself), which is not normal for anybody, rich or poor.

I also think that filming a reality show about your life is a selfish thing to do to your children—especially if you want them to be normal.

I’m sorry if I’ve offended fans of hers, but statements like these from people like her really make me laugh.

annabelle on July 10th, 2007

Wanting her kids to be “normal”? How can children be normal when they have Malibu Barbie and Ken for parents? Normal is completely subjective, and I only wish the best for their family, but I can’t see how positioning themselves in the middle of Hollywood would put them in the path of anything normal.

shaina on July 10th, 2007

Oh I forgot to add…. My mom was/is a total Barbie! OMG!! She wakes up in the morning, showers and puts on the cutest outfit just to hang out at home/or cook or whatever. She chases my son all over the house in her heels but she LOVES it. Some people are just like that! It has nothing to do with being materialistic or putting too much emphasis on appearances. People read too much into it sometimes. My dad loved his “barbie” and she enjoyed it. Maybe Posh is the same. In all honesty, I’m a bit of a diva too!!

Laura on July 10th, 2007

Riiight. The difference between the way Victoria and Jennifer Garner raise their kids? We don’t see pictures of Victoria and her kids everyday.

Having paps taking pictures of you at the grocery shop, playing in a park, swimming, getting coffee is not normal for alot of kids out there. But Jennifer gets called a hands on mother. The second some other celebrity does that, she’s using her kid(s) for publicity. Atleast the Beckham kids get to go on private family vacations and usually they are successful in avoiding all the paps. Violet Affleck is not at all being raised in a normal way either but somehow not too many people seem to mention that.

Bella on July 11th, 2007

I admire the way Jen Garner and Ben Affleck seem to be raising Violet. I agree that it is not *normal* for a child to be photographed out at the grocery store, getting coffee with her mum or playing at the park but I like the fact that Jen seems determined to live as normal a life as possible. She does not sell photos of Violet and seems to just live her life, photos of no photos.

And in a different way, I admire the way the Beckhams have kept their children out of the public eye. Even with Victoria seemingly forever photographed, we rarely see their kids. And remember that even with this reality show, her kids won’t be in it. It’s about her (and David).

To me, I suppose the difference is that Jen is so often with Violet, you have to assume she is hands on. At least neither Victoria or Jen are do photoshoots with their kids for the magazines or drag them along to events to be photographed.

I think it is impossible for celebrities to strike the right balance between leaving them with the nanny (or the other parent) and going out in public alone and always being out with the child, which drags them into the public eye. Regardless, the kids will always be the children of celebs and not *normal*.

Melissa on July 11th, 2007

I think what Victoria said was perfectly fine. She didn’t say “Never”… infact, in the whole article, she says how she regrets the wedding photos with her kid and since about 2004/2005, she wasn’t as strict. Now she is more careful. And just because you read about her with diamonds for kids or sports cars for kids doesn’t mean you have to believe everything you read, Infact, I don’t believe any article until I see the actual celebrity (whoever it is) saying it in a statement or interview, doing it on video, etc.

Claire on July 11th, 2007

She has denied spending that amount on the boys. Can see one such denial here :-
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/showbiz/2950037.stm

PSB on July 11th, 2007

I think the reason we may not see as many pictures of the Beckham boys is because there are stricter laws in Europe regarding photographers taking photos of children of celebrities (because the kids are underage and not actually celebs themselves). My husband is European, and I remember them blurring out the faces of celeb kids in magazines over there, unless they are at a public event like a red carpet premiere. That said, I’m sure the Beckhams try to protect their kids from the photogs. I just don’t think they are normal–sorry!

Emma on July 11th, 2007

Um, when David got a Hummer imported from the US a couple of years back didn’t Brooklyn get a kids one from Harrods? I can’t say whether Victoria is a good mum or not because I don’t know her and have no idea what goes on in their day-to-day life. However, I do know that she seems to be an incredibly manipulative woman who will do or say anything to get what she wants out of life – which is obviously money and status. Everything about her is attention seeking – can you say the same for people such as Julia Roberts? If she truly wants “normal” kids then shouldn’t she be leading a more “normal” lifestyle herself?

Devon on July 11th, 2007

PSB is right. The Europe, they blur the faces of children much more than they do here. I remember reading my Hello! and all the faces of the Beckham children were blurred. I thought, how odd. But it makes sense. Also, Victoria has asked that the paps not taking photos of her children because of Romeo’s epilepsy. They seem to be adhering to that.

Even though she has denied spending oodles of money on her children, why shouldn’t she? It’s her money and she can do with it as she pleases. It is possible to spoil and splurge on your children without them turning into spoiled adults like Paris Hilton.

SJ on July 11th, 2007

Sorry, but Victoria Beckham is NOT an amazing woman, nor is she gorgeous. She’s a liar. When she was plugging her failed pop album three years ago, she did a documentry on ITV1 in the UK and Brooklyn and Romeo featured VERY heavily in that documentry. She has allowed OK! Magazine to photograph Brooklyn for their 25 page wedding spread.

Now the boys are older and able to tell their parents they’re not impressed.

She’s fame hungry and will sell her soul to the devil if it means holding on to her status as a celebrity. She has failed as a pop singer and the UK find her utterly laughable.

Carine on July 11th, 2007

She must know that by moving to LA things are only going to get worst for those children? Just now Im watching star daily or something and there talking to a news agency who has set up Team beckham who will follow them around 24 7. If they had stayed with real madrid for another 3 yrs like David has said he would have liked to I tend to think the kids would have led a more normal life away from the cameras. But there not my kids so who am I to judge lol