Monday, July 1, 2024 -Football legend, David Beckham has revealed that he always knew he was going to be with his wife Victoria Beckham, even before they first met.
The iconic couple are set to celebrate their
25th wedding anniversary on July 4, and ahead of the occasion, the footballer
has reflected on the moment he first saw the Spice Girl.
David, 49, told The Sun that he
first saw Victoria, 50, in a Spice Girls music video, and told his
Manchester United teammate Gary Neville that he was going to 'be with
her.'
He said: 'I always said that once I met
Victoria, I would always be with her.
'A couple of months before we met I
was abroad with the England team. Gary Neville and I were in the hotel room and
a Spice Girls video came on.
'I think it was Say You'll Be There. I
pointed at the screen and told him, 'That's the girl for me and I'm going to
get her.
'It was her eyes, her face. She's my
idea of perfection.'
Victoria shared similar insight, saying: 'I
fancied David long before we met.
'I remember doing an interview for a soccer
magazine and they showed me photos of different footballers.
'I had no idea who he was, but I just
remember thinking one word: Gorgeous.'
David and Victoria first met in 1997,
when she came to watch him at a Manchester United football match and he
said 'hi from across the room'.
Victoria recalled the meeting in a letter
for her 18-year-old self in Vogue, writing: 'While the other football players
stand at the bar drinking with their mates, you will see David standing aside
with his family.
'(He's not even in the first team at this
stage—you are the famous one.) And he has such a cute smile. You, too, are
close to your family, and you will think how similar he feels to you.'
During an appearance on Ellen DeGeneres
show, David also told of the sweet moment, saying: 'She came to a football
match—soccer match—and I said 'hi' from across the room and that was it.
'I thought I'd missed my chance, and then a
week later she turned up at another football match. She had a few to drink, and
she gave me her number.'
After their initial meeting, the couple
went on their first date and quickly became inseparable.
In January 1998, just one year after the
meeting, David and Victoria announced their engagement.
Speaking about the proposal, Victoria
said at the time: 'We'd already looked at a few rings but I didn't know which
one he had chosen. I'd told him what my dream ring would be. He remembered and
had it specially made for me'.
Mere months before the couple became Mr and
Mrs Beckham, David and Victoria welcomed their first child together, son
Brooklyn.
The power couple tied the knot in 1999
after two years of dating. The couple now have four children, Brooklyn is
now 25, Romeo is 21, Cruz is 19 and Harper is 12.
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