29 Throwback Snaps of Victoria Beckham in Her Posh Spice Era

At 52, Victoria Beckham has had a multifarious career: as fashion designer, beauty mogul, author, model, editor, and producer, besides being a mother of four. And this all without acknowledging her pop star roots, as one fifth of the best-selling girl group of all time, the Spice Girls.

“Together you will make it OK to look different,” Beckham once wrote in a letter to her 18-year-old self for British Vogue of her time as Posh Spice. “And, as the Spice Girls, you will sell 75 million records. You cannot possibly imagine your future life right now. You will travel on private planes, visit incredible countries, stay in fantastic hotels. (At the beginning, you will steal the hotel mini shampoos, shower gels, and conditioners, but you soon realize that they leak in your suitcase—often disastrously.) You will storm into people’s offices, leap onto tables in hotels, and go crazy (although you will also be the one checking that the table isn’t going to collapse). You will meet Nelson Mandela, Mariah Carey, and Elton John. But please, I implore you, keep a diary. There will be so many amazing moments, and you will forget.”

In honor of her birthday today, let’s flash back to a young Victoria Beckham in her Spice Girls heyday.