How Strict A Dad Is David Beckham?

Gigi Hadid; Kate Hudson; Kaia Gerber{ =nofollow}; Willow and Jaden Smith. When it comes to breaking the entertainment industry, having famous parents certainly doesn’t harm your chances in making it big.

But David Beckham wants his children to know that they’re going to have to have determination in order to make it. When asked by GQ magazine what advice he'll pass on to his kids, the dad-of-four and former footballer said, ‘To work hard, simple as that. I tell the kids they have to make choices, sometimes give things up.’

And that, according to David{ =nofollow}, means putting your social life on hold: ‘If your friends are going out on a Friday night, maybe you can’t. Maybe you’ve got tennis practice the next day or you’re in the studio singing, like Cruz, or you’ve got a shoot, like Brooklyn. That’s where your focus needs to be.’

It’s good, solid advice – the kind you’d get in a careers meeting at school, perhaps. But, the thing is, even if he doesn’t want his brood to take advantage of their gilded lifestyle, David’s kids are already super famous.

It’s unlikely they will have to work half (or even a quarter) as hard as their dad, who created a business empire after retiring from professional football, to make millions. David Beckham{ =nofollow}made sacrifices to become a footballer; he knew what it was to struggle and strive; he knew what it was to be ordinary and then, suddenly, not.

Meanwhile, Brooklyn – at the age of 20 – has accrued 11.5million followers on Instagram, landed an internship at Rankin, and shot a Burberry fragrance campaign. (He has also launched a photography book, What I See, which was panned by critics in 2017.) Romeo, now 17, is training to become a tennis professional, with the Daily Mailreporting last year that the family had invested thousands in a court in their house. 14-year-old Cruz released a Christmas single in 2016. It’s unlikely any of these #careergoals would happen without their parents connections. (Harper is only eight, so who knows what she will go on to do.)

David might want his children to get their heads down, but the truth is being a celebrity child means they won’t have to put in the same leg work for fame and fortune – whether they’re talented or not. They can literally afford to see their mates on a Friday night.

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