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Victoria Beckham is blaming her sour image as a "miserable bitch" on the bitterness of the British public.

She says she receives bad press because of a conspiracy of spiteful people who resent her success as a businesswoman.

"Somebody's got something in for me," she told I-D magazine. "I don't know who it is and why it is, but it's true.

"I don't put up with that s***, basically. That's it. You have to bear in mind that in Britain good businessmen are seen as good businessmen and good businesswomen are seen as bitches."

And she claimed the public did not know the real Victoria Beckham: "I think they think I'm a miserable bitch. But that's people that don't know me."

Despite her apparent reluctance to spend much time in Spain since her husband moved to Real Madrid, she claimed the family were now happily settled in their rented £4.5 million villa.

"That is my home. I love spending time there. Who wouldn't like it? Much as I love my work, my priority is my family being together," she said.

"If David said to me that he wanted to go and live in Japan and it was genuinely what was best for his career, then I'd go. That's how much I love him."