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"Victoria Beckham has explained that she doesn&amp;#039;t smile because it &amp;quot;look[s] a little daft&amp;quot; in paparazzi photos. The former Spice Girls singer has become known for her stern image, but she insisted that she is happy when with husband David Beckham and their children, Brooklyn, Romeo, Cruz and Harper.  &amp;quot;I smile in family pictures,&amp;quot; she stressed to the New York Times. &amp;quot;When you&amp;#039;re in a position to be paparazzi-ed just walking down the street, you&amp;#039;d look a little daft if you were smiling all the time.&amp;quot; Beckham added that she hasn&amp;#039;t started to stress about how she looks in photos as she gets older. &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t want to be made to look like I&amp;#039;m 25. I&amp;#039;m 39. I don&amp;#039;t have any issues with my age,&amp;quot; she said, adding that she thinks David &amp;quot;literally always looks really, really good&amp;quot;.  The fashion designer also claimed that the family never intended to make themselves a brand, but now she &amp;quot;absolutely&amp;quot; wants to build &amp;quot;an empire&amp;quot;.  &amp;quot;We don&amp;#039;t look at it as a big brand,&amp;quot; she said. &amp;quot;It is, but it happened very, very naturally.  &amp;quot;It seems that now everybody wants to make a brand; everybody wants to build a brand. Ours happened very organically... the most important thing is each other and the children.&amp;quot; She added: &amp;quot;[But] I want to get bigger and bigger. I absolutely want an empire.&amp;quot; Beckham recently claimed that she and David are &amp;quot;much more normal than people think&amp;quot;. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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