Posh: I had eating disorder

Victoria Beckham has admitted for the first time that she suffered from an eating disorder - and blamed it on Geri Halliwell.

In the first extracts from her forthcoming autobiography the wife of David Beckham also told of threats to kill her and her husband and kidnap their son, Brooklyn.

Posh Spice had always denied suffering from anorexia after her weight plummeted following the birth of her child.

Her autobiography is to be published in the Mail on Sunday.

Posh has now admitted that dieting became an obsession in the early days of the Spice Girls while the five were holed up in a house in Maidenhead, Berkshire, and told to lose weight.

It was Geri, who now has a successful solo career of her own since leaving the band, who encouraged Victoria and Melanie Chisholm to get up early and go running as they tried to shed the pounds.

But when she introduced Victoria to milkshakes to help curb her appetite, Posh changed from someone who needed to lose some weight into an "obsessive", the paper revealed.

In the following years, Victoria began binge-eating, including eating 10 bowls of Frosties in one sitting and tins of fruit.

In the book, entitled Learning to Fly, Beckham also revealed how she was targeted with a laser beam gun while rehearsing for last year's Brit Awards. Police rushed to the gantry after the Spice Girl spotted the red spot - which is usually followed by a bullet from a laser-sighted gun - on her chest.