Victoria Beckham is famous for many reasons: for her poshness, for her super famous world-class footballer husband David Beckham, for her days cavorting around in mini-skirts with the Spice Girls, but perhaps also for her distinctive dislike for smiling and her reputation for being a bit of a moody wagon. Why smile for a photo, she asks? Because it's daft.
Should we expect celebrities to say 'cheeeeese' everytime a camera flashes in their face? Would you? Doubtful. Not at the level of paparazzi mania she's dealing with. Perhaps on a red carpet, when she's there of her own volition, she could afford to crack a smile or two but when she's tottering to and from the shops in her Louboutins with her designer brood in tow, she'd really rather just tell those pesky photographers to shove it where the sun don't shine, through the medium of her stern 'don't mess with me' facial expression; it doesn't mean she's a bitch underneath.
When asked why she'd rather puss than show off her gnashers to the cameras VB said to The New York Times: "I smile in family pictures... When you're in a position to be paparazzi-ed just walking down the street, you'd look a little daft if you were smiling all the time."
And lest we forget it, Victoria is actually a mere mortal who has worries and does poos like the rest of us. Did it ever occur to any of us that although she may have enough cash with which to wipe her Creme De La Mer-infused arse, she might actually be a self conscious human being, aware of her own mortality just like the rest of us?
Maybe she's fine with keeping to herself and not smiling like a wide-eyed fame hungry twenty-something year old: "I don't want to be made to look like I'm 25. I'm 39. I don't have any issues with my age."
She's got a sense of humour too: when it was suggested to her that they include a bowl of grapes in their New York Times photoshoot she quipped - "We don’t want anyone to know I eat... Why ruin that?"
It's reassuring to know that her attitude to life behind the camera doesn't match up to icy, 'I'm better than you' vibe we get through the lens. She's surprisingly down to Earth, and tries to keep things that way at home, telling the New York Times about their ordinary family birthday parties:
"We have what I consider to be normal birthday parties... I've been to parties in L.A. that are mind-blowing. I mean, quite literally mind-blowing. People get cellphones in the party bag, that sort of thing. Fabulous, fabulous parties. Ours aren't like that. They are normal kids' parties. We’ll have a bouncy castle, a face painter."
Though we're sure there's still a few sneaky diamonds emblazoned onto said bouncy castle; she's still Posh Spice after all.