After more than 25 years of marriage to David Beckham, Victoria Beckham is clapping back at critics who doubted the couple would last.

The fashion designer and former Spice Girl, 51, sat down for an episode of the "Call Her Daddy" podcast released Oct. 22, in which host Alex Cooper asked about how she has navigated "speculations" about her marriage to the former soccer star.

Cooper was presumably alluding to the fact that David Beckham's former assistant, Rebecca Loos, has alleged she had an affair with him. He has denied the claims, which originally surfaced in 2004.

"We've had so much thrown at us," Victoria Beckham said. "We were talking about it because we've recently celebrated our 26th wedding anniversary. By the way, people said it wouldn't work. 26 years! We've had so much thrown at us, and we've always just been there together and ridden the storm."

Victoria and David Beckham have been married since 1999. They share four children.

David Beckham has previously alluded to cheating claims

David Beckham previously alluded to the cheating claims in his docuseries "Beckham" in 2023, without directly naming Loos. "Victoria is everything to me," he said. "To see her hurt was incredibly difficult, but we're fighters, and at that time we needed to fight for each other. We needed to fight for our family, and what we had was worth fighting for. But ultimately, it’s our private life."

Victoria Beckham's "Call Her Daddy" interview comes after the release of her own docuseries, titled "Victoria Beckham," in which she opened up about struggling with an eating disorder.

Victoria Beckham opens up about eating disorders, conversation with daughter Harper

On the podcast, she described being "terrified to eat any fat" in the 1990s and noted she felt unable to confide in anyone about the struggle. "I didn't know what I saw when I looked in the mirror," Beckham said. "I had no idea. You lose all sense of reality, and it is so consuming, it is so tiring, and it takes over. It really takes over."

"I was too scared to talk to anyone," she added. "I didn't feel that I could trust anyone at all. I managed to do it myself and turn an unhealthy obsession with food into a healthy relationship."

Beckham also recalled having a conversation with her 14-year-old daughter, Harper, about her eating disorder before the documentary came out. "I just spent a bit of time talking to her about it so she could understand," she said. "When you have an eating disorder, it makes you miserable. It is sad. It is lonely. It is all-consuming. I was present for many years, but not truly present."

In her Netflix docuseries, Beckham reflected on being scrutinized for her size when she was a part of the Spice Girls and shared that she became "very critical of myself" and "didn't like what I saw" when she looked in the mirror. "I could control my weight, and I was controlling it in an incredibly unhealthy way," she said. "When you have an eating disorder, you become very good at lying."

Beckham also opened up further on "Call Her Daddy" about being "physically and mentally" bullied in school, sharing that she did not tell anyone about it at the time, including her parents. "I suppose I was ashamed, embarrassed," she said. "And so I didn't tell anybody. But my entire school life was miserable."

Contributing: Erin Jensen and Naledi Ushe, USA TODAY

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