Victoria Beckham says 'absolutely not' as she candidly opens up on 'worries' for children

With three sons in their twenties, and a teenage daughter who’s determined to carve out her own identity, Victoria Beckham could be forgiven for losing track of her kids’ movements from time to time.

But the pop star turned fashion designer has rejected any suggestion that she might not know where Brooklyn, Romeo, Cruz and Harper might be at any given moment: “Absolutely not,” she told the Daily Mail, “we have a family chat group, and we all know where each other are.”

Victoria, 51, explained she and husband David check in with their kids at least once a day, every day via the WhatsApp group.

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“David and I like to check in with them all before we go to bed at night and check everybody’s home,” she said.

“Romeo might not live with us any more but we like to make sure he’s home and safe. You don’t stop worrying about your kids, even when they’re grown up.”

The former Spice Girl says that she worries about her children’s welfare as much today as she did when they were very young: “That’s something that will never change,” she said.

Victoria went on to confess that, at the moment, she’s particularly worried about her daughter, who at 14 is growing up in a world where intense pressure is placed on young girls to conform to unattainable beauty standards.

Admitting that she’d had her own personal struggles with an eating disorder, Victoria said she had spoken to Harper about it before the premiere of a new Netflix documentary about her life: “We just had a really honest conversation, and I explained that when you have issues with food, it is all consuming,” she said.

“It is sad. It’s a very lonely place. I thought it was important that she heard it from me before she saw it at the theatre.”

Victoria, who denied having anorexia when directly asked about it on the late Sir Michael Parkinson’s BBC chat show in 2000, says she’s been talking to her daughter about the issue of eating disorders for quite some time, “because that is a conversation that’s flying around at school.”

However, in the new Netflix documentary, she admitted: “I could control my weight and I was controlling it in an incredibly unhealthy way.

“When you have an eating disorder, you become very good at lying. And I was never honest about it with my parents. I never talked about it publicly.”

That’s why she’s determined to have an open dialogue with her daughter: “The one thing that doesn’t seem to change is that little girls think a lot about food as they’re growing up, and when their bodies are changing and when they’re going through puberty.

“My wish for Harper is that she has a really healthy relationship with food, and that she eats healthily.”