David Beckham‘s latest underwear campaign led to quite the uncomfortable conversation with his mother-in-law.
Beckham, 49, stripped down to his skivvies for a series of Hugo Boss ads that launched in January, which drew the “embarrassing” attention of Jackie Adams, the mother of Beckham’s wife of 25 years, Victoria Beckham.
“She was like, ‘I was sat with my friends and we were zooming in and do you know if you zoom in you can see everything?’” David told Netflix content chief Bela Bajaria at the inaugural MIP London content and networking market on Tuesday, February 25.
David recalled responding, “Well just don’t zoom in.”
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The former Manchester United star married Victoria, 50, in July 1999 and the couple share four children: sons Brooklyn, 25, Romeo, 22, and Cruz, 20, and daughter Harper, 13.
As for Victoria’s mom, Jackie, she has been married to Victoria’s father, Anthony, since 1970.
The Hugo Boss campaign effectively brought David out of underwear modeling retirement, which is not something he imagined was in the cards.
“Getting back into my underwear at 50 years old in front of the world was quite a thing that I actually wasn’t looking forward to,” David admitted. “I hung my pants up when I did my last commercial 10 years ago and never thought I’d do it again.”
He added, “I told my team I’m not going back in my underwear but then we signed the Boss deal and they said they had an underwear campaign and I was under quite a bit of pressure at that point so I agreed and trained for it.”
As David explained, the training and preparation for the campaign were no joke.
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“I trained for it for 14 weeks and as someone that loves food and wine, I cut that out for 14 weeks and just went for it,” he explained.
Elsewhere during his conversation on Tuesday, David gushed about what to expect from his wife’s upcoming Netflix docuseries, which is expected to debut later this year.
“It’s gonna see her in a different light,” David said. “It’s gonna see the work that she puts into her business, her life, her family. There’s so many different elements of this documentary that people are going to be surprised by, the juggling that she does.”
He added with a smile, “I think with Victoria, I suppose some people probably think, ‘Oh, she started a brand and it’s come very easy,’ but she’s been building this for a long time. I just think this is going to showcase that. She’s got a very witty personality — she’s very funny. Not as funny as me.”
