From working-class pop star to country novelist, the former “Ginger Spice” is the queen of reinvention. She talks about girl power and why she’ll never complain about the ’90s.
, was released in 1996, I was three months shy of eight years old and that summer is the first I can remember as having a soundtrack. My parents had just moved to the north London suburbs and I spent every day of the holiday listening to the A and B sides ofBack at school, there was Spice fever – year groups were torn apart by playground arguments about who was going to be whom in re-enactments of their music videos.
She offers me a cup of tea and pulls out a mug with the Queen’s face on it from the cupboard. I ask if it is commemorative or comic. “What do you mean?” she asks, her Disney princess eyes unblinking. I disclose that I’m anti-monarchist. She wonders why. TV show, a five series-strong Netflix documentary about the world of F1 . Pictures of him standing by cars and holding cups hang next to wedding photos and a framed front page ofI sit at a long kitchen table while she makes us scrambled eggs. Her face, in the bright morning light, is aged but unchanged. Rosy cheeks, Doris Day nose. I tell her how unusual it is to meet a female celebrity over 50 whose face moves.
The gas has gone a long way. With nine UK No. 1 singles and more than 100 million records sold worldwide, the Spice Girls are the bestselling female group of all time. As a solo artist, Halliwell-Horner has had four chart-topping singles, including, and two Top Ten albums. She’s released two bestselling autobiographies and a children’s book that sold a quarter of a million copies in five months.
the movie and would meet with Kim Fuller, who wrote the screenplay, every week so they could work together on it. She describes life after the Spice Girls as the “no-man’s land” of her 30s. She was busy – she had a successful solo career, studied acting in Los Angeles and wrote her first children’s book. But she felt stuck between her youth and coming into her own as a woman: “It felt like my clothes didn’t fit.” She also said it was a decade of feeling “a pressure to tick boxes”.
She says it took her time to feel comfortable, having been alone for so long, but she now feels “incredibly grateful” to be in a “really loving relationship”. They got married in 2015 and she gave birth to Monty in 2017, when she was 44. “To every 30-year-old I want to say: ‘’ [don’t worry],” she says, her Spanish heritage emerging . “You’ve got time. I’m so grateful that I had that time to evolve into who I am.
But it is commonly known now that the 1990s and early noughties was the worst time in history to be a female celebrity, I lecture earnestly to the woman who lived through it. She lets out a cackle. “Resentment is drinking poison and expecting someone else to die. It’s all copy. I use it in art.”
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