Victoria Beckham

If you haven’t got it. Fake it! Too short? Wear big high heels, but do practice walking!

I wake up every morning and I feel like I’m juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run out of London, and most evenings I’m cuddled up in front of Skype, in my dressing gown, speaking with my studio in London. I travel a lot, my team travel a lot, but I wouldn’t have it any other way.

What’s David’s role? David looks good, that’s what David does. David looks good, and I’m the funny one, that’s what I hear constantly. But I keep telling him that looks fade.

I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15.

I like a man who can be a real friend, has a good sense of humor, a good pair of shoes and a healthy gold card.

I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out.

I am a control freak. I am very hands on and pay attention to details.

This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well.

I’m still me even after all that’s happened.

I don’t know much about football. I know what a goal is, which is surely the main thing about football.

I’m very proud to be British, and my brand is British.

My dresses are for women of all different shapes and sizes. Actually, the one I tried on yesterday was the one Jennifer wore. And who’d have thought I’d be the same size as Jennifer Lopez!

You have to remember that when you are a performer you become a celebrity, but you are not saving lives. It’s not that important.

These people are amazing. It’s so emotional I was thinking about wearing waterproof mascara.

I’ve been that celebrity on the red carpet, and I appreciate that something hasn’t got to just look good from the front, from the back, it’s got to look good at all angles.

In England, David and I are big fish in a small pond. But in L.A., we are tiny, tiny, tiny fish in a big pond.

I’m a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I’m a spiritual person as well. I believe in creative visualization. So for me to go to America – which I find such a positive place – well, I took to it like a duck to water.

I’m not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does.

I keep fit by running after my three boys all day.

There are rumors that we want to move back to the U.K., but we’re so happy in America I actually can’t see us ever leaving… People ask me how long it took to adapt. Twenty minutes.

We are still so close, David and I. We were at a party the other day at my mum’s house and I was sitting on his lap. We’re very affectionate. And I looked at him and thought after being married for 11 years! We were the only couple who were even near each other at that party. We’re soul mates.

I can relax in L.A. I think I’m the only person in that town who doesn’t want to act. I was an OK singer. I was an OK dancer. But acting? Never could do it.