0 Victoria Beckham is too chic too smile

Victoria Beckham knows she doesn't appear happy in pictures.

The fashion designer - who is married to soccer star David Beckham - is famous for looking demure and hardly smiling for photographs, but insists she is happy in her daily life.

She told German edition of Interview magazine: "Yes, I created this persona and I'm very different from that.

"I don't feel like I have to scream and shout about it - I know I am a happy person. So I don't get upset when people comment on the fact that I look quite miserable all the time. But people think I am.

"And you know, sometimes I think the same thing when I look at the pictures."

Beckham, 38, has plenty to be happy about, with the four children she raises with her husband - Brooklyn, 13, Romeo, nine, Cruz, seven and ten-month-old daughter Harper - and her successful, self-titled fashion line, which made a reported £15 million in sales in the first three months of 2011.

Beckham also looks back fondly on her days as a singer with girl group The Spice Girls in the 90s, but admitted she was never a great singer.

She added: "Was music my talent really? No, I don't think I was particularly talented.

"With the other girls, the five of us all really worked together. But talented? I sound a bit odd to myself."

Thanks: timeslive.co.za/entertainment/celebrity/2012/05/30

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0 Barack Obama teases David Beckham for his underwear career

President Barack Obama teasingly described David Beckham as a "rare man" who could balance a long football career with producing his own line in underwear.

The former England captain his LA Galaxy team mates were lauded at the White House after winning the Major League Soccer Cup, America's equivalent of the Premiership.

Turning to the 37-year-old Beckham, Mr Obama described him as "young up-and-comer". To laughter from his team mates, the President said: "I have to say I gave David Beckham a hard time, and told him half the team could be his kids. We're getting old, David.''

But he conceded that the footballer was "holding up better than me" and said it was a " a rare man who can be that tough on the field and also have his own line of underwear".

Beckham grinned with embarrassment as the young squad aroung him burst into laughter.

Already a major star in the US, his profile was further lifted by a sultry Superbowl ad where he modeled tight underpants for H&M before an audience of more than 160 million Americans.

Mr Obama also singled out Robbie Keane, the former Tottenham striker who joined LA Galaxy last year.

The President, who often makes light of his tenuous Irish heritage, described the Ireland captain as "a cousin of mine".

"His teammates were so happy to have him that they filled his locker with what they called the 'pleasures of Ireland' - Guinness, Bailey’s, and Irish Spring. Hopefully Robbie has broadened their horizons a little bit since then," Mr Obama said before being presented with an LA Galaxy jersey.

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