Victoria Beckham's Netflix doc traces Spice Girls to fashion

Victoria Beckham premiered her three-part Netflix documentary in London on Wednesday night, surrounded by family, friends and several former Spice Girls, as the series about her life and career began streaming globally the following day. The screening at Curzon Mayfair and a subsequent afterparty brought Victoria Beckham, her husband David Beckham and three of their four children together to mark the launch of the eponymous series directed by Nadia Hallgren.

The documentary traces Beckham’s path from teenager and Spice Girls member to WAG and then to fashion designer, following her team as they prepared for a high-stakes Paris Fashion Week show. It features on-camera interviews with industry figures including Anna Wintour, Tom Ford and Donatella Versace, and shows both behind-the-scenes preparations and archival coverage of the intense media scrutiny that followed her through the 1990s and 2000s.

Beckham speaks candidly in the series about long-running struggles with body image and disordered eating. “When you have an eating disorder, you become very good at lying,” she says in the film, describing how public commentary on her weight contributed to a loss of self-confidence. The...