Mel B and her daughter Phoenix Brown.Photo:Karwai Tang/WireImage
Karwai Tang/WireImage
Mel Bhad a saucy response when asked how she felt about her 24-year-old daughter,Phoenix Brown, channeling her past looks.
But in a recent interview onTheTonight Show StarringJimmy Fallon, Mel B joked that she was “so pissed” and “annoyed” at her daughter borrowing her outfits.
“So I’m looking on Instagram and she sends me through this flurry of pictures,” she explained, adding that when she saw the photos, she thought, “That looks a bit like me.”
Then, she realized what her kid was wearing. “She’s got all my bloody outfits on! The bitch stole my look and went into my wardrobe, and I’m like, you better bring all that stuff backright nowbecause they’remyclothes,” theAmerica’s Got Talentjudge said.
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Phoenix recreated outfits from the 1997 “Spice Up Your Life” cover art, the group’s 1996 “Say You’ll Be There” music video and theSpice Worldmovie poster from 1997.
But of course, Mel B cheekily thought she wore them best!
Spice Girls at the 1997 Brit Awards.Ray Burmiston/Avalon/Getty
Ray Burmiston/Avalon/Getty
Mel B, who said seeing her daughter in her Spice Girls costumes was a “trip,” went on to explain the story behind the pieces.
“Spice Girls, we’re very much a homegrown band. So, we used to style ourselves, we did our own music, we begged producers and co-writers to work with us on the promise that when we’re rich and famous we’ll pay you back (we never did).”
Spice Girls.JMEnternational/Redferns
The quintet — which also includedVictoria Beckham, Geri Halliwell, Melanie C and Emma Bunton — was “broke basically” and ended up styling themselves and making their own clothes with their low budget. “That was 50 cents that top, probably made the skirt myself, skorts they were called,” Mel B remembered.
Phoenix, though, thinks her mom’s fashion was — and still is — the coolest in the game.
Mel B said, “My 24-year-old gone and said to me, “Yeah mum, you’re cool, but you’re really cool now because everything you wore back in the ‘90s has come back ‘round.’
source: people.com
