Victoria Beckham wants Harper to have a healthy relationship with food – how do we break the diet culture cycle?

‘Beauty equals thinness’ is the message a whole generation received, and the hope is that the current generation of young women are less tethered to this idea. But what is the reality?

Victoria and Harper Beckham. Photo: Getty

Speaking in a recent interview, Victoria Beckham said: “My wish for Harper is that she has a healthier relationship with food than I did. I’ve talked about food with [her] before. The one thing that doesn’t seem to change is that little girls think a lot about food as they’re growing up, when their bodies are changing and they’re going through puberty,” she told the Mail on Sunday.

In her fly-on-the-carefully-curated-wall Netflix mini-series, Beckham reveals little about herself, other than that she hasn’t eaten chocolate since the 90s, and that all the media hate she endured post-Spice Girls caused her to develop an eating disorder because at the time controlling what she ate seemed her only genuine area of autonomy.