People Magazine has some quotes from Victoria Beckham at the Glamour Women of The Year Awards earlier this week. (Kaiser covered the fashion here if you’d like to see more!) Usually I kind of gloss over Beckham’s interviews but I have to say that her comments really resonated with me. She talked about how she sometimes feels guilty being a working mom, and how her friend, Diane Von Furstenberg, talked her right out of that. (How I wish I could be able to wear Furstenberg’s dresses regularly, but I digress.) I really like how she explained it, like you’re setting a good example for your kids by being a working mom. Beckham also discussed her charity work with the U.N. in Africa, for which she was being honored at the event. I didn’t even know she did work with the U.N. but maybe that’s because I don’t pay enough attention to her. Here’s more:

Beckham not only being honored for her fashion-business success, but for her work as an International Goodwill Ambassador with the United Nations’ AIDS program.

“You know, it’s huge,” she said. “When UNAIDS invited me to be a UNAIDS Global Goodwill Ambassador, it was a huge honor and something that meant an enormous amount to me. This is something I’m very passionate about,” she said. “I’m spending a lot of time in Africa working very closely with the U.N., speaking on behalf of the incredible women that I’m working with and it took me getting to 40 years old to realize I have a powerful voice.”

“People will listen to what I say for whatever reason, and I can really make a difference,” she added. “It means a huge amount.”

Beckham also reflected on some of the best advice she’s received from another woman, revealing that it was fellow fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg who left a lasting impression on her.

Beckham said she confided in von Furstenberg about guilt she was feeling for working while she has four children at home.

“For me, I was having dinner with Diane von Furstenberg a few months ago and she’s a woman I have an enormous amount of respect and admiration for,” she said. “I said to her, ‘Diane, when your children were younger and you were working, did you feel guilty?’ And she said, ‘Absolutely not. It’s a waste of time, a waste of energy, it’s aging.’ And she said, ‘Actually, you’re setting a good example with the fact that you’re a women, you’re going to work. You really are setting a good example…’

“And that was great advice because I’m sure there are lots of women right now watching TV who are thinking, ‘I feel guilty. I’ve got kids and I’m going to work.’ Actually, it is a positive message to be given to your children and to other women and children as well.”

[From People]

Victoria and David Beckham have four children: sons Brooklyn, 16, (shown with his mom in these pictures), Romeo, 13, Cruz, 10, and daughter Harper, four. I only have one child, a son in fifth grade, and I constantly feel guilty for working – and I work from home! It does bleed into my night hours and I have to tell him “I can’t right now, I’m working.” I tell myself that this job allows me to spend more time with him, to drop him off and pick him up from school and to go to events. It must be so hard to work out of the home eight hours a day or more and to commute on top of that, but so many of you do it. This is a great attitude to have, that you’re setting an example by providing and showing your kids that careers are important.

Here’s a link to a speech which Beckham gave in front of the U.N. last year. She said that she had made her first trip to South Africa, that it had changed her perspective and that she’s a “passionate supporter of women” and believes “that everybody has the right to a healthy life.” I really like what she said about how she realizes she can make a difference with her voice. I wish more celebrities realized this.

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