By Georgia Burns,Mark Jefferies

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Victoria Beckham has opened up about the moment she was weighed on live television, admitting it “hurt” and that the criticism surrounding her appearance had a damaging impact on her. The shocking incident took place on Chris Evan’s Channel 4 show TFI in 1999, just months after the former Spice Girls star had given birth to Brooklyn , her first child with England footballer David Beckham . During the segment Evans asked: “Is your weight back to normal?” When Victoria replied that it was, he pressed further: “Can I check, do you mind?” before getting her to step on a pair of scales and remaking: “Eight stone’s not bad at all, is it?” Although the uncomfortable moment does not appear in Victoria’s new Netflix documentary series, it remains available online and both Victoria and David have since spoken out about how unacceptable it was. Reflecting on the incident, David said: “People felt it was okay to criticise a woman for her weight, for what she’s doing, for what she’s wearing. You know, there were a lot of things happening in TV then, that won’t happen now, that can’t happen now.” Victoria continued: “I was weighed on national television when Brooklyn was six months old. Get on those scales on television. Have you lost the weight? You know, and we laugh about it and we joke about it, when we’re on television. But I was really, really young, and that hurts.” The couple reflected on how the relentless comments and criticism about Victoria’s looks and weight during the Nineties and early noughties left a long-lasting mark, the Mirror reports. David added: “My Victoria, that I knew, sits at home in a tracksuit, smiling, laughing, having a glass of wine. That started to go purely because the criticism that she was getting.” Victoria added: “I really started to doubt myself and not like myself. Because I let it affect me. I didn’t know what I saw when I looked in the mirror. Was I fat was I thin, I don’t know. You lose all sense of reality. I was just very critical of myself. I didn’t like what I saw.” She recalled: “I’ve been everything from Porky posh to skinny posh. I mean, you know, it’s been a lot, and that’s hard. I had no control over what was being written about me, pictures that were being taken. And I suppose I wanted to control that, you know.” “I could control it with the clothing. I could control my weight, and I was controlling it in an incredibly unhealthy way. When you have an eating disorder, you become very good at lying. And I was never honest about it with my parents,” she explained. “I never talked about it publicly. It really affects you when you’re being told constantly you’re not good enough, and I suppose that’s been with me my whole life.” Join the Daily Record’s WhatsApp community here and get the latest news sent straight to your messages.