Posh 'ready to give up singing career'

Last updated at 11:37 23 November 2004

You cannot say she didn't try. But after 非常に／多数の試みる／企てるs at a 単独の music career, Victoria Beckham has 発表するd that she is ready to hang up her microphone.

The former Spice Girl, who has spent thousands making an album that will never be 解放（する）d, says she wants to concentrate on a new career as a 着せる／賦与するs designer.

What is more, she 収容する／認めるs for the first time what we have all guessed - that she was never that good at singing.

"I think it will be difficult for me to continue with my music career," Mrs Beckham, 30, said yesterday.

"The music 産業 is not what it was. It seems to me that people will readily 受託する me dedicating myself to fashion.

"I know that I could never become the best singer in the world. I am conscious of that.

"However, everything to do with fashion comes 自然に to me.

"I'm living in Spain and I have two sons. This takes up most of my time. 'The 残り／休憩（する） is taken up with design, which is my 広大な／多数の／重要な passion in life. I don't think I'll ever feel that passion for music again."

Mrs Beckham, who is 推定する／予想するing her third child in March, is the only former Spice Girl not to have had a 単独の number one.

She last 解放（する）d a 選び出す／独身 a year ago but にもかかわらず集まりs of publicity it still reached only number three.

An album 価値（がある） of 構成要素 that she had 記録，記録的な／記録するd, 大部分は with 非難する生産者 Damon Dash, was later scrapped and she was 捨てるd by her 記録，記録的な／記録する label, Telstar, last Christmas.

A few months later the label, which had given her a ￡1.5million 取引，協定, 発表するd that it was の近くにing.

Sources の近くに to Mrs Beckham say her 経営者／支配人 Simon Fuller has told her that he does not believe the British public want to buy her 記録，記録的な／記録するs, however good they are.

"She has more or いっそう少なく thrown the towel in because she has come to realise that people do not take her 本気で as a musician," said one

source.

"Simon has told her to knock it on the 長，率いる and to turn her talents to other things.

"However, Victoria does not have the sort of nature to give up on things 完全に.

"Geri Halliwell has a new えり抜く this week and if that does really 井戸／弁護士席 then I don't think Simon will be able to 持つ／拘留する her 支援する."

Mrs Beckham has 開始する，打ち上げるd her own brand, DVB, and has already 調印するd up to design ジーンズs for fashion company 激しく揺する and 共和国 and 捕らえる、獲得するs for the Samantha Thavasa label.

In an interview with a Spanish magazine, she said her husband David was much happier with her new 職業, which means they no longer spend weeks apart.

"David loves my new career," she said. "He sees that I love it and that I work very hard to be able to stand out in this new 段階 of my professional career."

A 広報担当者 for Mrs Beckham said that she had put her music career 計画（する）s on 持つ／拘留する - but it may only be 一時的な.

"She is not 焦点（を合わせる）ing on her music 権利 now but that is not to say that she won't be in the 未来," said a 広報担当者.