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Creativity Quote by Victoria Beckham

"I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run out of London, and most evenings I'm cuddled up in front of Skype, in my dressing gown, speaking with my studio in London. I travel a lot, my team travel a lot, but I wouldn't have it any other way"

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She turns the glossy myth of celebrity ease into a stress metaphor sharp enough to cut: "juggling glass balls" isn’t just "busy", it’s the kind of busy where one slip means shattering consequences. That image does important PR work. It frames her life as high-stakes labor, not pampered chaos, and it invites empathy without asking for pity.

The geography is the point. Los Angeles and London read as status markers, but she uses them as evidence of logistical strain: time zones, travel, constant coordination. The detail that she’s "cuddled up in front of Skype, in my dressing gown" is calculated intimacy. Dressing gown beats red carpet; Skype beats chauffeur. It domesticates the brand and makes her hustle feel relatable, a working mother-energy vignette dropped into a luxury life. It also quietly signals modern competence: she’s not just a famous face attached to a label, she’s managing an international operation in real time.

And then the kicker: "but I wouldn’t have it any other way". That line flips complaint into chosen identity. The subtext is ambition without apology. She’s normalizing a particular kind of contemporary success: always-on, borderless, mediated through screens, sustained by teams and travel. Coming from someone long dismissed as a "WAG" or pop-culture accessory, the quote reads like a rebuttal delivered in loungewear: yes, it’s fragile; yes, it’s exhausting; yes, it’s mine.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Beckham, Victoria. (2026, January 16). I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run out of London, and most evenings I'm cuddled up in front of Skype, in my dressing gown, speaking with my studio in London. I travel a lot, my team travel a lot, but I wouldn't have it any other way. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-wake-up-every-morning-and-i-feel-like-im-84808/

Chicago Style
Beckham, Victoria. "I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run out of London, and most evenings I'm cuddled up in front of Skype, in my dressing gown, speaking with my studio in London. I travel a lot, my team travel a lot, but I wouldn't have it any other way." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-wake-up-every-morning-and-i-feel-like-im-84808/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run out of London, and most evenings I'm cuddled up in front of Skype, in my dressing gown, speaking with my studio in London. I travel a lot, my team travel a lot, but I wouldn't have it any other way." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-wake-up-every-morning-and-i-feel-like-im-84808/. Accessed 9 Feb. 2026.

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Victoria Beckham

Victoria Beckham (born April 17, 1974) is a Musician from England.

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