At 48, Mel B Bares Her Body In Unedited Bikini Photos As She Discusses Being A Survivor

Jun 27, 2023

Mel B, also known as Scary Spice, had been looked up to by many women for years as the messages of her girl group Spice Girls’ songs mainly revolved around the topic of female empowerment.

Aside from being a fearless artist, the musician is also a mother of three lovely children, but behind the glitz and glamor of the music industry and her life as a family woman, there is a big secret that the singer kept for years, but she finally revealed it to the public through a moving photo shoot.

Female empowerment had been the number one goal of the popular British girl group ever since they started out.

In a previous interview with Jessie Ware on the “Table Manners” podcast, as reported by Yahoo! News, Mel B’s bandmate, Melanie C or Melanie Chisholm, said at the beginning of their career, they were told by the public that girl bands don’t sell albums, and they won’t make it to magazine covers because girls buy records by boys.

The five women, consisting of Mel B, Mel C, Emma Bunton, Victoria Beckham and Geri Halliwell, didn’t take no for an answer and still defied all odds to achieve their dreams of becoming major musicians.

At the time, the singer said they started talking about girl power in their music as they wanted to prove a point.

In a 2015 interview with the London Times, Mel B shared her thoughts about empowering women, as she said she tries to live by the “girl-power motto” that the Spice Girls had spread since the start. She told the publication that no matter how bad a day a woman is having, they should support other women.

In May 2023, Mel B, 48, teamed up with lingerie company Pour Moi with her mother and daughter as a part of the brand’s “Own Your Confidence” campaign, where they flaunted their toned bodies.

Speaking in an interview with Women's Health Magazine, the musician expressed her love for the company as the project revolved around feeling confident and “celebrating women of all shapes, sizes and ages.” It appears that Mel B was also a big part of the creative direction as it was her idea to include her daughter and mother at the shoot, which they all enjoyed.

Scary Spice shared a series of images from the photoshoot on her official Instagram account, where the trio was seen wearing an array of swimsuits and underwear in different colors and prints.

In the caption, the British singer said she wanted to be a part of the campaign because “It’s time that we owned our confidence, spread those positive vibes and empower others to be their true selves!”

Even though the singer looked great in the photos, there is a dark side behind them as she opened up about being a survivor of domestic abuse for a decade. She went on to discuss that she was in an abusive marriage for 10 years. At the time, she worked as a judge on “America’s Got Talent,” and the public didn’t know what was happening behind closed doors when she got home.

For context, Mel B was previously married to her ex-husband Stephen Belafonte from 2007 to 2017. According to a statement made by the film producer’s legal team in 2017, as reported by Sky News, her former partner denied all allegations and noted that the accusations were “nothing more than a smear campaign.”

Mel B further discussed her survival story in an interview, and she noted that when a person comes out of an abusive relationship, it’s hard to grapple with life because victims would often feel “lost and really broken.”

As a tip to those who suffered the same fate as her, the musician had nothing but this advice: “The only person that can get yourself back to even a smidgen of what you were before is you and that takes a lot of, you know, talking, a lot of understanding, a lot of therapy.”

The photoshoot was close to Mel B’s heart as she noted in the conversation that being together with her mom and daughter, who are the people closest to her, shows the public their unity as women.

In a separate post on social media, the singer shared several behind-the-scenes clips from the photoshoot, and many fans praised her toned body.

“WOW you just get better with every year,” one commented, while another one expressed, “Girl you’re as radiant as the morning dew glistening from the sun on a rose, love you queen.”

Luckily for her supporters, Mel B was willing to share her secret for maintaining a great figure. In the interview, the singer said she loves weightlifting and her form being corrected because it could change a person’s body shape.

Regarding her routine, the former “America’s Got Talent” judge undergoes two hard and heavy sessions of weight training every week. She also lives a healthy lifestyle by sleeping at 9:30 p.m., waking up at 6:45 a.m., taking her dogs outside, meditation and a balanced diet.

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