Victoria Beckham Says Working Moms Should Feel Proud, Not Guilty
Mom guilt (or the pestering feeling that you somehow aren't ever doing enough for your kids) is a problem for so many women. It's particularly rough when you pile on top of that the guilt often associated with being a working mom instead of a stay-at-home mother – the so-called "abandonment" of your kids for a job. But in a new interview, Victoria Beckham opened up about why fellow working moms should feel pride, rather than guilt, for their career woman status.
Beckham recently discussed travel, family, and her career as part of British Airways' Make Your 2017 #unforgettable campaign. On the subject of being a working mom, she noted that she loves getting on a plane and "unplugging," calling it "the only time when [her] phone is switched off." For the woman formerly known as Posh Spice, who parents her 4 kids with David Beckham and runs a fashion line, air travel is an important opportunity for that "mom time" – and she doesn't feel bad about it.
"When you're a busy mum, you don't really have a lot of time to really, really relax. As a working mother, you should never feel guilty, you should feel proud," the fashion designer said. "You're inspiring your children in the right way, being a strong woman going to work."
But Beckham hasn't always felt this way about being a working mom – she used to experience mom guilt, too. In a 2013 interview with Vogue China, Beckham said that though "[m]illions and millions of women around the world are doing this every day," you can't help but "feel guilty every time you walk out of the door to go to work."
Her tune had changed by the time she made a Good Morning America appearance in 2015. She recalled then what Diane von Furstenberg had once told her when she asked whether her fellow designer had ever felt that mom guilt: "[S]he said, 'Absolutely not. It's a waste of time, a waste of energy, it's aging [...] Actually, you're setting a good example with the fact that you're a woman, you're going to work. You really are setting a good example,'" Beckham remembered.
Clearly, Beckham took von Furstenberg's words to heart and is now spreading that sentiment.
(h/t Babble)
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