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Fresh-faced and fifteen, Victoria Beckham perfects THAT pout in her first ever photoshoot

Frizzy-haired Posh Spice was five years from global fame when snaps were shot

Fresh-faced and fifteen, Victoria Beckham perfects THAT pout in her first ever photoshoot

FRESH-FACED Victoria Beckham looks far from Posh as she poses in these black and white snaps taken when she was just a teenager.

The former Spice Girl, 42, has built a name for herself as one of the most polished women in showbiz, often gracing the covers of Vogue.

 Facing the future ... Victoria is given skin treatment by a friend
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Facing the future ... Victoria is given skin treatment by a friend

But she hadn’t yet perfected her trademark pout when she appeared in a prospectus for the London Academy of Health and Beauty aged 15.

Sporting a frizzy brunette hairdo, the star is seen smiling alongside pals as they try out a series of amateur beauty treatments at the college.

In one photo, a shy-looking Victoria sits on a chair as her friends prepare to administer electric currents designed to stop blood clotting.

In another, she thoughtfully examines the legs of a teenage girl ahead of wax application.

 Rubbing along ... Victoria gives massage
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Rubbing along ... Victoria gives massage
 Close-up ... Spice Girls star is so frizzy at 15
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Close-up ... Spice Girls star is so frizzy at 15

And a third image shows her wrapped in a gown with a towel around her head as she undergoes a skin-boosting electrode facial treatment.

She is also seen smiling sweetly in a beautician’s uniform during a lesson.

 Pop leg-end ... friends gather round for beauty treatment on her foot
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Pop leg-end ... friends gather round for beauty treatment on her foot

Other off-duty shots show the fashion icon relaxing in a dowdy woollen cardigan as she chats to a friend in one of the college’s dormitory rooms.

Behind her a toy panda rests on a shelf behind some peeling wall posters.

And in a hint of things to come, the leotard-clad youngster is seen posing in a dance style stretch with her pals during aerobics class.

Then Victoria Adams from Essex, the star looks like any other ordinary teenager.

 Touch of class ... Victoria, bottom right, lines-up with academy pals
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Touch of class ... Victoria, bottom right, lines-up with academy pals
 Spice is right ... today , Victoria is known to be one of the most glamorous women in the world
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Spice is right ... today , Victoria is known to be one of the most glamorous women in the worldCredit: Splash News

But just five years after these pictures were taken, she shot to global fame when the Spice Girls unleashed smash hit Wannabe on the charts.

And as her now glamorous image proves, she never looked back.

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