Simon Fuller: ‘Victoria Beckham was never comfortable in the Spice Girls’

Simon Fuller has claimed that Victoria Beckham never felt ‘comfortable’ in the Spice Girls.

The band’s former manager thinks that the star has now found her ‘true vocation’ as a fashion designer after struggling as a pop star.

Speaking at the Business Innovation Awards in Los Angeles, Fuller admitted that Beckham didn’t even feel quite right at the height of the group’s success, despite being able to ‘sing pretty well’.

He said: “She could sing pretty well, she could dance pretty well, but she always felt uncomfortable.

“Even in the Spice Girls - it was great fun, she was in the world's biggest group for two or three years - but she didn't feel comfortable.”

Even after she broke away from the band and launched a solo career, Beckham wasn’t ‘comfortable’, Fuller claims.

He continued: “When the Spice Girls broke up, she had a few songs as a solo artist but she wasn't happy and she said to me 'Simon, I just don't want to do music anymore. What do you think I should do?'

“I've known Victoria since she was 18 and her passion in life was always clothes. "I said 'You should be in fashion. You should be a designer'.”

Fuller added: “She's now a legitimate fashion designer... there's no stopping her. She will be - without any doubt - one of the world's greatest designers in the next few years.”

Fuller managed the Spice Girls at the height of their success in the 1990s and went on to launch Beckham’s dress collection at New York Fashion Week on 2008.