"If you haven't got it, fake it! Too short? Wear big high heels, but do practice walking!"
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The heel advice sharpens the subtext. She’s not romanticizing empowerment; she’s admitting it’s work, and sometimes it hurts. High heels are an almost comically literal symbol of manufactured stature, the kind of object that turns “too short” from a personal insecurity into a solvable styling problem. But she adds a crucial caveat: practice walking. The image does double duty: it’s about learning to move convincingly inside an artificial upgrade, and about avoiding the public stumble that turns a woman’s aspiration into a punchline.
Context matters: Beckham rose from Spice Girls “Girl Power” slogans into the tabloid crucible, then into fashion, where presentation is currency and the gaze is relentless. Her advice reads as brand-born pragmatism: don’t wait for confidence to arrive; build the scaffolding, then learn to live in it. It’s both empowering and a little bleak, because it treats selfhood as something you can accessorize. Still, the honesty is the hook: if the world demands a performance, you might as well direct it.
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| Topic | Confidence |
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| Source | Later attribution: The Best Book of Useless Information Ever (Noel Botham, 2007) modern compilationISBN: 9781101203460 · ID: 1ez7P_Li8ywC
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Beckham, Victoria. (2026, February 16). If you haven't got it, fake it! Too short? Wear big high heels, but do practice walking! FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/if-you-havent-got-it-fake-it-too-short-wear-big-84809/
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"If you haven't got it, fake it! Too short? Wear big high heels, but do practice walking!" FixQuotes, 16 Feb. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/if-you-havent-got-it-fake-it-too-short-wear-big-84809/. Accessed 17 Feb. 2026.










