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Victoria Beckham scales new heights for Armani underwear shoot
Last updated at 13:35pm on 04.08.09She is known as a pop star, footballer's wife and fashion guru - but now it seems Victoria Beckham has developed a rare new talent.
DIY chic: Victoria Beckham skillfully climbs a ladder with heels
In her latest underwear photo shoot for Emporio Armani, the former Spice Girl appears to have successfully climbed a ladder while wearing high heels.
It is a challenge most other DIY enthusiasts would not dare to attempt - but one the 35-year-old mother-of-three looks to have accomplished with effortless ease.
More pictures: David and Victoria Beckham - the Armani adverts
The thought of climbing a ladder wearing just your underwear would be enough to deter most people - and Posh was also faced with the added complication of the high heels.
But, while it is not clear how many rungs she climbed for the image, health and safety experts will be hoping it does not prompt a new celebrity-inspired trend.
Along with her husband, David, 34, Victoria posed for a series of shots taken by renowned fashion photographers Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott in Milan.
They will appear in fashion magazines and on signature billboards in major cities, including New York, Los Angeles, London, Milan, Rome, Paris and Tokyo, from September.
More pictures: David and Victoria Beckham - the Armani adverts
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Flo, Bath - Yep.
- Andy, London
Andy, London - bet your wife/girlfriend wishes you looked like David Beckham.
- Flo, Bath
Reading these comments, its amazing how jealous people can be.
Most women I know would do anything to look like Mrs Beckham after so many kids, and most men I know would do anything to have a wife/girlfriend who look liked Mrs Beckham after so many kids!!
- Andy, London
I think she looks fantastic - she's a mother of 3!
- Jk, London
"...the former Spice Girl appears to have successfully climbed a ladder while wearing high heels. It is a challenge most other DIY enthusiasts would not dare to attempt."
She hasn't 'climbed' the ladder, you idiot - look at the angle of her feet on the rungs. She's 'walking' along a horizontal ladder - probably waaaaaaay up there at least... oh, three feet off the ground.
- Paul H, London, UK
Unfortunately I am one of the sad people that love the Beckhams. I think they really compliment each other, I love the way they dress and look but even I have to agree that this isn't a good picture. I'm now sure if any of you remember George Michael's Fastlove video but there was a frightfully skinny woman and this is what Victoria reminds me of. I do wish she'd smile once in a while. I think David may have to have another "alleged affair" so they can perform for the cameras again and we can see Victoria smiling broadly.
- Lorraine, London
"Victoria Beckham skillfully climbs a ladder with heels".
A didn't know ladders were sufficiently fashion-conscious (or conscious at all, for that matter) to wear heels.
- Paul H, London, UK
You can't say Twiggy has had the most airbrushing after these ghastly pics. Have Armani abandoned trying the attract sales!! I do not buy celeb endorsed products and like Paul B am happier for it If Beckhams touch it I dont. Life is just too short.
- Amazonmothe, hasting
I like Victoria she has a good sense of humour, seeing her interviewed she is v.witty. But ..... she looks like a stick insect..not very flattering really. She looked better when she was a spice and had a bit more meat on her.
- Lin, London England
She looks bloody stupid.
- Gabrielle, London
are these two in danger of slipping up their own bums, do they even know that fame is a mask that eats your face, what else can I say, maybe I have said enuf!
- Pam, london
Give the poor girl a big-mac or something to fatten her up. She looks like she's starving. And while you're at it (and at the risk of cracking her poly-filler), tickle her to make her smile.
- Ljp, Farnham
Am I the only woman who has had more than one baby is actually secretly in awe of her . . . ?!
- Roz, France
What's that stupid THING emerging from her head?
She's not actually climbing the ladder. She looks like she's desperately crawling along it for a good meal at the other end.
In those heals, she will probably fall off and crack her face.
- Kate, London
Does this particular brand of spaghetti come with chips?
- Ted, London
I have seen more meat on an OX-TAIL
- Shallotman, Basildon
She really is very soppy.
- Alan, Essex
Nice figure, bit Oh Dear, does she ever smile. She always looks like some nasty smell has just been let off near her.
- Uncle Vanya, East Anglia Area UK
I.ve got pencils that look better in underwear
- Keith Price, Luton, England
Why would Armani want to be linked with chavviness... I thought they were a prestige brand..... they may as well use Ms K Katona!!!!!
- David, soton
Not content with being a multi millionaire, this woman cant live without being in the news for good or bad reasons. Is she a freak or something.
T H Leeds
- Thomas Hayes, Leeds UK
I think she looks gorgeous.
- Mj, East Anglia
hilarious. and to think they spent loads of money, paid her some improbable amount then decided to actually run this advert straightfacedly gives a whole new example of The Emperors New Clothes. Did no one point out this looks absurd ? even japanese teenagers wouldn't fall for this - well actually they probably will.
- Squiz, Islington
What a strange creation she is, the product of an over active media world. It's amazing what air brushing and following a "celebrity" diet can do. I hate to think what will happen when she can no longer re-invent her self to get onto the front cover of national enquirer.
- Mike, London
The face might have a slight resemblance of the real model, however the body has been seriously manufactured. In reality she is very skinny with boney knobbly knees and protruding collar bones with a sign of either suffering from anearoxia and or bullimia. Who are we kidding here? Money does not buy perfection.
- Mavis Cook, London
Apart from when she scrutinizes her bank balance, has this miserable looking female ever been known to smile?
- Ted, London
how wonder how much is hairbrushed? I doubt it if she looks that good
she is a terrible role model for young girls
- London Eye, London
I have managed so far this year to avoid all celeb promoted products. Saved money by doing so.
- Paul B, London
YUCK !!!!!
- Scotty, Cambridge UK
CGI is all; was she, or anyone else, actually on a ladder at any time? We need to train ourselves mentallyto regard all imagery as animation, unless proof exists to the contrary.
- Mdj E10, london uk
Looks like something my son would make out of K'nex - someone tell her to eat something, oh and smile once in a while.
- Adam, London
She looks like that psychotic serial killer in The Cell (film starring J-Lo)!
- Real, London
It`s about time a few rules were dictated concerning any model used in advertising.
For example;
All must be AVERAGE weight for their HEIGHT (-0 percent, plus 5 percent)
Images that have been digitally airbrushed MUST state so, and list the changes made.
Just these two rules ,if enforced should drag (?) females back to reality of what a REAL person looks like, as opposed to the extremely disturbing view that fashion designers are peddling of "perfection" (i.e their designs only look acceptably "good" on tall skinny coat hanger models) .
We go on about healthy lifestyles - well, for the physical AND mental wellbeing of our young and easily led fashion addicts, this misinterpretation of perfection has to be stopped.
- Darius Midwinter, London UK
Do you think she realises just how stupid she looks? She looks like a skinny teletubbie.
- Investment Banker, London
