Strawberry meals forever

Victoria Beckham has gone on a bizarre diet of just strawberries.

She has been snubbing healthy meat and salad dishes at the Portuguese hotel where the wives and girlfriends of the England soccer team are staying during Euro 2004.

Friends are concerned that already stick thin Posh, 30, could end up wasting away if she carries on with her strawberry diet.

Ironically, her husband David's former PA Rebecca Loos revealed how he hand fed her strawberries during their steamy affair.

A fellow footballers wife staying with Victoria at the luxury Penha Longa Hotel and Golf Resort told the Sunday Mirror "She just eats strawberries and turns away all the great Breakfasts and salads that everyone else tucks into. Most days she has only one meal and that is strawberries.

"Sometimes she just sits there drinking mineral water while e all tuck in. It is a bit strange." Health experts have also warned that her rigid diet, which can perk up the libido, could lead to diarrhoea, loss of energy and irritation of the gut.

Nutritionist Zoe Tebbutt said the vitamin C, fruit and anti-oxidants in strawberries would clear up Victoria's notoriously spotty skin and would have some health benefits.

But she also warned that she was sicing with danger if she stuck to the diet for more than a few days - and might even threaten the possibility of having a third child if she persists with it.

"A two day detox eating a mixture of fruit and vegetables, and plenty of water and multi vitamins would probably be quite good for you" she said. "But in this case she is not getting any protein, so her cells will not be able to regenerate and she will feel very weak."

Victoria is staying at the hotel with sons Romeo, 18 months and Brooklyn, five, along with Beckham's mum Sandra. David and the other players are allowed to associate with their partners only occasionally during the championships.

July 20th 2004