By Alanah Eriksen


She put on an out-of-character public display of emotion as she accepted a top prize at the British Fashion Awards last week.

And it appears Victoria Beckham continued to put aside her usual steely reserve backstage.

The 37-year-old gushed about football ace husband David and their four children as she discussed the inspiration for her work.

Not so Posh anymore: Victoria Beckham, pictured after winning Designer Brand of the Year last week, says her children and husband David are her inspiration


'I well up just thinking about it,' she told Hello! after accepting the Designer Brand of the Year gong.

'David is my rock. He encourages me and gives me confidence to do what I do and my kids inspire me every day. And my mum and dad were here, which was fantastic. I love them all so, so much. My family means everything to me.'

Victoria attended the event at London's Savoy hotel while her five-month-old daughter Harper slept upstairs.

David was with his team, LA Galaxy, in Jakarta but was quick to congratulate his wife via Facebook.

Still in love: Victoria, who has been married to her LA Galaxy star husband for 12 years, described him as her 'rock'


The couple, who have been married for 12 years, left their three boys, Brooklyn, 12, Romeo, nine, and Cruz, six, at home in the U.S. so they could attend school.

Victoria revealed that she almost forgot to thank people because her mind 'went blank' as she fought nerves on stage, despite performing hundreds of times during her time in the Spice Girls.

'But I had four other people to hide behind. People say to me: "Oh, it must be easy for you, to get up on that stage - you did it before". But that was the most nervous I have ever, ever been. It's been like a roller coaster ride, it really has.'

Victoria also told OK magazine that she had no friends when she was growing up but it taught her to be resilient.


Baby love: Mother-of-four Victoria's five-month-old daughter Harper was asleep upstairs at the Savoy Hotel in London as her mother accepted the gong

Doting daddy: David with the couple's three boys, Brooklyn, 12, Romeo, nine, and Cruz, six


'I was a skinny sallow-faced eight-year-old with pigtails and a gap in my teeth big enough for a pea to get stuck in. It was miserable. I didn't fit in.

'Children were picking things up out of puddles and throwing them at me. I just stood there, on my own.

'People would push me around, say they were going to beat me up.

'What did I care? I didn't need friends. One day I'd show them. One day I'd be famous and then they'd be sorry.'

With the support of her father Tony and mother Jackie in the audience, Victoria fought tears on stage as she accepted her award from friend Marc Jacobs.


'I'm so sorry for crying. I'm being so rubbish, she said.

She added: 'I would like to thank the British fashion industry for your support,' she said. 'I'd like to thank my team, you all know who you are, your focus, your creativity, I couldn't do it without you.

'Simon Fuller, a dear friend and the best business partner that anybody could possibly ask for.

'My parents, my kids and my husband. Without David I wouldn't have had the courage to do what I am doing.'

Marc Jacobs told the magazine his friend was 'a great mother to her kids and a great wife to her husband'.

He also revealed: 'She also said to me that she was going to have this hurdle of getting over the whole Post Spice thing and footballer's wife.

'And I said "We all have hurdles. If you really want to do this - and it seems like you really do _ you will do it". And she has, and she's done it with great style and humility and she deserves to be rewarded for it.'



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