Victoria Beckham And Nicole Kidman Just Had A Seriously Candid Conversation About Sacrificing Their Social Lives For Motherhood

For example, when David went for a fancy New Year’s lunch with the in-laws in December, he poked fun at Victoria by captioning a photo from the meal with: “Just a nice casual New Year’s Eve lunch at The Ritz ❤️ @victoriabeckham Very working class 😂 My mother & father in law left in there Roll’s 🤎”

The two also leaned into the viral moment for an iconic Uber Eats commercial ahead of the Super Bowl earlier this year, and Victoria even released a “My Dad Had A Rolls-Royce” T-Shirt through her designer clothing range. 

“Did you really get driven to school in a Rolls?” Nicole asked in the wide-ranging interview. 

“You know, my dad had a Rolls-Royce, and he also had a white van,” Victoria began. “I came from a working-class background and so my dad, in the '80s, he was an entrepreneur, he started his business with my mom at the kitchen table and he did very well, so he bought himself a Rolls-Royce.”

“We went to a regular school and we didn’t live in a big house and the minute he made money he went and bought himself a Rolls-Royce,” she continued. “One day we’d go to school in the Rolls-Royce, and one day we’d go in the van because he’d still work; he was an electrical wholesaler, and he was very much a worker.”

“Me and my siblings used to beg him, can we please go to school in the white van? Like, we were mortified at the idea of going in the Rolls-Royce,” Victoria concluded. “How things have changed! Nowadays, I’d be like, don’t worry about the van, let’s go in the Roller! But in those days, we just wanted to fit in.”

“Let me tell you, David Beckham is very funny,” she told Nicole. “I have a husband I very much am still in love with, possibly more than when we first met. We really laugh. And we really support each other in regards to our careers and passions.”

“Me and David can go away, just the two of us, and we laugh and we enjoy that time, and I think that’s so rare after so many years. It’s a pinch-me moment every day,” Victoria added.

Reflecting on her journey as a mother, Victoria said: “[David and I] woke up this morning and said, ‘We’re so proud of the kids, they’re such great, kind, sweet, humble, funny, hardworking young adults.’ Getting that balance is very difficult. I struggled with that a lot when the children were younger.”

“We’ve never had an enormous amount of staff, if you like,” she continued. “We do have nannies and we do have our parents, who have been amazing. But you do feel like you’re juggling. You’re trying to be the best wife, the best mom, the best professional. We didn’t have much of a social life when the children were younger, that is just that one thing too much.”

“Being a wife, mom, and fulfilling your dreams in regards to what your passions are, and what you love to do in regards to work, was enough,” Victoria added. “But then the kids get older and they flee the nest and have their own passions. Now myself and David are in the next chapter.”

And Nicole could relate to this feeling, replying: “We’re in the same boat as you — we put so much into the family and a lot of our social life didn’t exist, and now we need to make new friends, get out more, say yes.”

“When you’re raising kids, [you say] ‘I can’t actually go to that,’ or you’re sick and canceling, or you’ve got to work, and the one thing that’s going to fall is going out and creating new groups of friends,” Nicole went on. “Now we’re older, so we’re going, OK, we as a couple have to find our next step in the world and not just based on us doing stuff as a family.”