David and Victoria Beckham Star on W Magazine’s August 2007 Cover

Victoria Beckham tells W magazine what it was like when David was accused of having an affair three years ago: “I’m not going to lie. It was a really tough time. It was hard for our entire families. But I realized a lot of people have a price. David and I got through it together. No one said marriage was going to be easy. Yes, there have been bumps along the road. But the fact is we’ve come out of everything we’ve been through stronger and happier. It’s even better now than when we were first married. After all these years, we can just come home and have a laugh together.”

Following are other comments from David and Victoria Beckham’s interview found in the August issue of W:

Victoria Beckham

ON WANTING TO CHANGE AMERICA’S OPINION OF HER… “I think people are really going to see me for the first time. I think they have this impression that I’m this miserable cow who doesn’t smile. But I’m actually quite the opposite. When you’re out there, they’re trying to get pictures up your shirt, down your top. With all the flashes, it’s as much as you can do to just find your car. I’m going to try and smile more for America.”

ON FALLING FOR DAVID’S FAMILY VALUES RATHER THAN HIS SOCCER FAME… “I didn’t really know who he was. I was never into football…He was always with his mom, dad and sister while a lot of the footballers were at the bar getting drunk. I could sense right from the start that David was a gentleman, and very family-oriented, which is important because I’m the same.”

ON BUYING A 22-MILLION DOLLAR VILLA IN BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA… “I had quite a lot of things to get my head around. What was the nicest area? I was very much like, ‘Okay, the seaside is down there, training is there, school is there, and I think Barneys is over there.’ I kind of did it like that…we didn’t want anything too huge, too fancy, too ostentatious…something quite practical for the kids. It’s a light, happy house, with a great corridor the kids are going to love when they are roller-skating.”

ON WHETHER THEY ARE MOVING TO AMERICA TO IMPROVE THE IMAGE OF THEIR CURRENT PROJECTS… “We’re not out to be the most famous people in America. We’re not looking at the move as boosting the brand. We’re us and we’ve got our kids. We’re not aware of a lot of the madness going on around us. We kind of keep to ourselves, really.”

ON BEING A SPICE GIRL… “Being a Spice Girl opened a lot of doors, but it also shut many because of preconceptions people have about me. I’ve had to bang down those doors.”

ON BEING FOCUSED ON HER CAREER AT A YOUNG AGE… “Everything revolved around my dancing and singing lessons. I used to customize my school uniforms. I loved clothes, hair and makeup. I’ve always been a real girly girl.”

ON BEING PULLED OVER BY A COP IN LA FOR MAKING AN ILLEGAL TURN… “The policeman was gorgeous. And he loved my shoes.”

David Beckham

ON INSISTING HE AND VICTORIA WILL NOT CONVERT TO SCIENTOLOGY DESPITE THEIR FRIENDSHIP WITH TOM & KATIE… “Tom has never even talked to us about [Scientology], much less tried to push it on us.”

ON WANTING TO MAKE AMERICANS FALL IN LOVE WITH PROFESSIONAL SOCCER… “I do believe I can take it to another level. I wouldn’t have taken up the challenge if I didn’t believe I could have that effect.”

ON WHY THEY DON’T HIRE LIVE-IN STAFF… “We like to lock the doors at night and wander around naked.”

ON TRUSTING HIS WIFE… “I trust my wife 110 percent. When people say, ‘Victoria wears the trousers,’ I’m happy.”

ON HIS FAMOUS HAIRSTYLES… “I never actually think, Okay, next week I’m going to get a mullet. I just wake up one morning and I’m bored with my hair and shave it off. It’s just something I enjoy.”

ON SEEING VICTORIA IN A SPICE GIRLS VIDEO AND KNOWING THAT SHE WAS ‘THE ONE FOR HIM’… “I turned around to Gary (his teammate) and said, ‘That one there, that’s the girl I’m going to marry.”

ON BEING DETERMINED TO PLAY SOCCER AT A VERY YOUNG AGE… “At school whenever the teachers asked, ‘What do you want to do when you’re older?’ I’d say, ‘I want to be a footballer.’ And they’d say, ‘No, what you really want to do, for a job?’ But that was the only thing I ever wanted to do.”

ON VICTORIA HELPING HIM OUT WITH HIS STYLE… “I’ve always had a liking toward clothes, but when I met Victoria, she directed me in the right way. When she tells me something doesn’t look good, I believe her. We have a connection that way.”

ON NOT GETTING UP THE NERVE TO ASK VICTORIA OUT WHEN THEY WERE FIRST INTRODUCED… “I’m quite shy. I just sort of waved from the other side of the bar. I sort of said hello and then just went back to Manchester. I was quite upset and gutted.”

ON HIS SIZEABLE GAY FAN BASE… “I feel it’s an honor. It’s nice to be loved.”

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