Posh to Release Self-Help Book

The main gripe I have with this book and its author is that neither promises to offer anything of actual value. Instead, they breeze along on a placid ocean of so-called “experience” (”I’ve always been a girl’s girl,” Beckham said in a statement. “And I know from experience that making the very best of your self is something any woman can do.”) despite the fact that, for the past 13 years, Posh’s experiences – those very things from which one draws “experience” – have been limited to shopping and seeking out coveted hairstyles. And don’t we have enough books about “looking good“? Harper Collins, Beckham’s publisher, describes the text as such: “That Extra Half an Inch will offer guidance on everything from how to dress on special occasions to ‘how to feel confident and look great every time you leave the house.’” And there’s the ruse, people; “making the very best of your self” doesn’t have a thing to do with how your hair or heels look. Becoming the best person one can be means striving to reach a mental plane where one doesn’t give a that they’re not a half an inch taller.

That people believe she’s “in on the joke” and completely self-aware exacerbates her public persona. There is no joke to be in. The “superficial idiot role” isn’t a role once the actor spends their time driving $200,000 gas guzzlers and $4,000 makeup bags. That’s real money and real irresponsible behavior. The verisimilitude between her so-called “role” and her so-called “real life” indicates that she is, in fact, a superficial idiot; and there’s no reason she should be listened to about how to become a better person. Because let’s not forget that, by her own admission, Victoria Beckham is a “girl’s girl.” Why don’t we instead look to herald a woman’s woman?

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