Mel B got candid about how she feels about her daughter Phoenix wearing some of her iconic ’90s Spice Girl looks.
Phoenix, 24, wowed everyone in December 2022 with a photoshoot paying homage to her mother’s girl group alter ego, Scary Spice. In a recent interview about TheTonight Show with Jimmy FallonMel B joked with Fallon that the fact that her daughter lent her her clothes “upset” her.
“So I’m looking on Instagram and she sends me this flurry of pictures,” he said, explaining his thought process as he found the photos. “That sounds a little like me.”
“She’s got all my damn outfits on!” he America has talent The judge recalled the moment she realized it was Phoenix. “The bitch stole my gaze and went into my closet, and I thought, you better bring all those things right now because they’re my clothes.”
Her daughter recreated several of Scary Spice’s most iconic outfits, including the cover of “Spice Up Your Life” from 1997, as well as the group’s “Say You’ll Be There” music video from 1996. In the latter, she wore a black miniskirt, leather gloves, combat boots and thick silver jewelry. She also paid homage to her mother’s look in the 1997 film. world of spices movie poster, sporting space buns and a matching gold spandex bralette and pants set.
Fallon commented that the 24-year-old is the “spitting image” of her pop icon mother. “I thought it was a stunt like, ‘Who wore it best?’” Mel B joked. “I was like, ‘Yo!’”
The former Spice Girl continued to reflect on the group’s beginnings, when all the members, including Victoria Beckham, Geri Halliwell, Melanie C and Emma Bunton, lived in a house together and scrambled to find producers and co-writers to work with. they. .
“Spice Girls, we’re very much a local band,” he recalled of that time. “So we used to style ourselves, make our own music, beg producers and co-writers to work with us with the promise that when we’re rich and famous we’ll pay them back, but we never did.”
He also recalled that at the time they dressed themselves because they were “basically broke” and acted as their own stylists before reaching the big leagues.
“When I see things like that,” Mel B reflected, noting that some of the outfits Phoenix wore for the photo shoot were the original clothes she wore. “That was like 50 cents, that maximum. “I probably made the skirt myself.”
“Now they’re vintage,” the former Spice Girl continued of her ’90s style. “My 24-year-old son came and said, ‘Well, yeah mom, you’re cool, but now you’re really cool because everything you wore in the ’90s is back.’”
Phoenix is the eldest of Mel B’s three daughters. The artist shares 16-year-old Angel with comedian Eddie Murphy, and 10-year-old Madison with film producer Stephen Belafonte.
