Victoria Beckham shares heartbreaking childhood experience in new Netflix documentary

She boasts an incredible career and is one half of one of the world's most famous couples, but Victoria Beckham has revealed even she has struggled with her confidence throughout her life.

The Spice Girls star opens up in her new self-titled Netflix documentary about her entire life, from her childhood to her life as a pop star, as well as life with famous husband David andher fashion career.

No topic was out of bounds, with Victoria even delvinginto her body image issues and how some of her experiences as a young girl had shaped her negative thoughts about herself.

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"I didn’t look like a lot of the other girls. That’s where I started getting a lot of criticism about my appearance, my weight," she said, while discussing her time at theatre school as a teenager.

"I remember the principle of the theatre school saying to me, you know, at the end of the show we are going to just fly in. 'You girls can be flown in', meaning that we weren’t looking as aesthetically pleasing as some of the others, 'so we’ll just fly you in the back'," she also recalled.

The star's mum Jackie was told her daughter was "overweight" and this would mean she would be "at the back" of the performance.

"I really started to doubt myself and not like myself and because I let it affect me, I didn’t know what I saw when I looked in the mirror," Victoria sadly added.

She continued: "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. I have been everything from porky posh to skinny posh, I mean, it’s been a lot and that’s hard.

"I had no control over what was being written about me or the pictures that were being taken and I suppose I wanted to control that. I could control it with the clothing, I could control my weight. I was controlling my weight in an incredibly unhealthy way."

Victoria admitted that her eating disorder led her to "become very good at lying" and she was "never honest" with her parents about her struggles.

"I never spoke about it publicly, it really affects you. When you’re told constantly you’re not good enough. And I suppose that’s been with me my whole life," she emotionally added.

The fashion designer spoke about the controversial moment she was weight on live TV on TFI Friday by Chris Evans, months after giving birth to her first child Brooklyn, admitted that while it is joked about, it "hurt".

Victoria Beckham is available to stream on Netflix.