OWN YOUR CONFIDENCE & FEEL YOUR FABULOUS WITH SPICEY MEL B! KEEPING IT REAL, SCARY SPICE MEL B GETS CANDID ON BODY CONFIDENCE AND SO MUCH MORE… OUR CELEBRITY JOURNALIST ANGELA SARA WEST @ANGELA_SARA_WEST UNEARTHS HOW THE HONEST SPICE GIRL SETS AN EXAMPLE TO YOUNG GIRLS, HER FAVOURITE SUMMER SWIMWEAR, MODELLING WITH HER MUM AND DAUGHTER, AND WHY SHE INSISTED ON NON-AIRBRUSHED IMAGES FOR HER #OWNYOURCONFIDENCE CAMPAIGN WITH POUR MOI.
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ooking to spice up your life this summer? Look no further than one of our fave champions of girl power, Spice Girl Mel B, who tells us about how to achieve body confidence, what she wants, what she really REALLY wants, and how she’s inspiring us all to ‘feel our fabulous’ and forever confident with her gorgeous new lingerie and swimwear range. Empowering us all to ‘own our confidence’, luxury lingerie, swimwear and nightwear brand Pour Moi has teamed up with Mel B MBE - the embodiment of Girl Power, AKA Scary Spice! Joined by her stunning daughter Phoenix Brown and amazing mum Andrea Brown, this power trio are here to show us how they feel confident, comfortable and fabulous in a gorgeous new range from the brand. “I LOVED shooting this with my daughter Phoenix and mum Andrea, showing how you can feel confident, comfortable and fabulous in gorgeous lingerie, swimwear and beachwear!” Mel reveals. “I love that it was a collaborative experience – it was my idea to include my mum and my daughter. I love Pour Moi’s lingerie and swimwear and how it makes me feel, and I loved that almost everything looked WAY better on than I ever thought it would. I love that it’s British, and I loved that on the day we had so much fun!” SPICE GIRLS’ ‘WANNABE’ SUPERSTARDOM As one fifth of the best-selling girl band of all time, Melanie Brown aka ‘Scary Spice’ - is one of the most widely recognised pop stars on the planet. The band’s catchy debut single, ‘Wannabe’, hit the No.1 spot in a whopping 37 countries, sending them on a meteoric rise to superstardom. The all-girl group have since sold almost 100 million records and are such an influence on modern culture, very much inspired by feisty Mel B, that there are constant calls for them to reunite.
Mel B has been a driving force behind the Spice Girl’s reunions and tours while her solo and media work has gone from strength to strength. Phenomenally popular, Mel B has enjoyed a successful solo career, throwing her larger-than-life personality and incredible ambition all in and topping the UK charts with her debut single, ‘I Want You Back’, co-written by Missy Elliott. Her eagerly anticipated debut album, ‘Hot’, spawned two other Top 10 hits - ‘Tell Me’ and ‘Feels So Good’, while her second solo offering, ‘L.A. State of Mind’, followed before she scored another hit with dance track ‘For Once in My Life’ in 2013, reaching No. 2 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs Chart. The Scary Spice Girl remains constantly in demand as a TV presenter, too, also featuring as a judge on music mogul Simon Cowell’s hugely successful small-screen shows ‘The X Factor’ and ‘America’s Got Talent’, along with co-presenting ‘Dancing With the Stars’ in Australia and the UK’s version of ‘Lip Sync Battle’. CELEBRATING REAL WOMAN So, how did Mel’s latest top brand collaboration come about? “I love that Pour Moi’s philosophy is about feeling fabulous, feeling confident and celebrating women of all shapes, sizes and ages. It’s about being real, not being edited, and not taking ourselves too seriously,” says Scary Spice. “There is no such thing as the perfect body; we all come in different shapes, sizes, colours and skin tones, and all of them are beautiful. We need to celebrate all body types and shapes, too!” GIRL POWER! Their collaborative Own Your Confidence campaign is dedicated to women celebrating women, and both the Spice
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