Throwback footage of Victoria Beckham revealed in doc trailer

Her hair in plaits tucked underneath a cowboy hat, an angelic Victoria Beckham looks suitably at home as she performs to an audience at her local church hall, aged just six.

Dressed in a yellow frock, she swirls around doing a strikingly similar dance routine to the one she will perfect some 15 years later with the Spice Girls for their 1997 hit Stop.

The poignant, never-seen-before footage was released yesterday as part of the trailer for her three-part Netflix show, Victoria Beckham, out on October 9. 

The home video – found by her parents Jackie and Tony in their garage – marks the very start of Victoria's showbusiness career.

The documentary, which comes two years after her husband David, 50, shared his own life story for the streaming giant, will chart how a determined little girl from Hertfordshire rose to be one of the most famous women in the world.

We watch her become a Spice Girl, a footballer's wife, a mother and finally a successful fashion designer.

The 90-second trailer opens with Victoria, 51, joking about her reputation for never looking happy, saying: 'People thought I was that miserable cow that never smiled. But I do! Don't be shocked.'

Insiders say the show is 'emotional and very candid' and that for the first time the star will tell of her difficulties as a child. 

'The uncool kid at school, that's awkward,' she says. 'That was me. But I desperately wanted to be liked, have some self-worth.'

She struggled to be accepted by other children so she threw herself into stage school, which would prove to be her route to global fame.

And in other firsts, Victoria will speak for the first time about the challenges she faces with her fashion business, which was in the red for so many years after she launched it in 2008. 'A lot of people didn't take it seriously,' she admits.

Her best friend actress Eva Longoria confirms that view. 'Everyone was warning her, 'you will not be accepted',' she reveals.

Referring to her eye-wateringly huge losses, Victoria candidly admits 'we were millions in the red' while David says: 'It made me panic.'

As behind-the-scenes footage of her Paris show last year plays in the background, she adds: 'It's taken so long to get to this point, I'm not gonna let it slip through my fingers again.' 

Friends of Victoria's tell me that this is a reference to the Spice Girls, which came to an end in 2001, three years after Geri Halliwell quit the band. It devastated Posh.

'This is the first time Victoria has ever spoken about those challenges,' says one pal.

'She was determined that the fashion business wasn't going to go under. She lost the Spice Girls, which she had no control over, but she wasn't going lose this too. She had found her heart's desire and she wasn't prepared for that to go as well.

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'It was so hard at many points but there were times it almost went under and she will not shy away from that.'

Naturally, the Spice Girls feature in the documentary too. Clips of her time in the band flash up as she insists she has 'never forgotten where I've come from'.

'Performing was my dream,' says Victoria. 'The Spice Girls made me accept who I am, and then all of a sudden, it stopped.'

There will also be revelations about her life as a WAG, which began after she met David in 1997 in the Manchester United players' bar at their Old Trafford stadium, something she has never really discussed before.

And then, of course, there's her family. All of her children appear in the trailer – even her estranged eldest Brooklyn, 26.

He is seen as a months-old baby on holiday with his parents in Italy in 1999. It's fleeting but it was a special time for Victoria and David. 

Romeo, 23, also appears as a toddler while Cruz, 20, is seen being fitted for a suit at his mum's workshop.

As for Harper, 14, she is there too, sitting with her brothers on the front row of Victoria's catwalk show as well as a cute scene where we see her dancing with her mother.

I can also reveal that despite the devastating family feud, Brooklyn's wife Nicola Peltz appears briefly appear in the documentary. 

The couple have not spoken to David or Victoria since they snubbed all of the former England footballer's 50th birthday celebrations in May.

A source reveals: 'She will be in a scene at the fashion show, she isn't speaking but she's there. That was all filmed in 2024 and she was in Paris so she will be in it.'

Victoria's show, which has been produced by the makers of David's documentary – who also filmed Michelle Obama's hit documentary Becoming – has taken a long time to reach our screens. 

Victoria has been filming for the past 18 months to ensure that she puts forward the best content possible.

And, of course, each of the three episodes is peppered with Victoria's famously sharp and witty sense of humour.

At the end of the trailer, as the couple are seen in an outhouse at their £10million country mansion in Great Tew, Oxfordshire.

David says to her: 'You could make me a cheese and ham sandwich, we'd be proud of you.'

She responds: 'Let's be honest, I couldn't actually make a cheese sandwich very well.'