Sir David Beckham and Kylie Minogue were among the celebrities who turned to Instagram on Sunday to mark US Mother’s Day, posting tributes that reached millions of followers and, in Beckham’s case, briefly put the family he shares with Victoria Beckham back in the spotlight.
Beckham, 51, shared a black-and-white photo of Victoria Beckham while she was pregnant and described her as “the best mommy” to his 86.6 million followers. Victoria reposted the picture and replied, “I love you.” She also shared a bouquet of white roses to her Instagram story, adding an American flag emoji, tagging Beckham and writing, “I love you so much.”
The Beckham post carried extra weight because the couple have four children together — Romeo, Cruz, Harper and their eldest son Brooklyn — and the article says there is an ongoing family feud with Brooklyn. That made the tribute read as both a public celebration and a carefully framed family statement on a day when social media filled with tributes from other well-known names.
Mother’s Day lands in a different month in Britain, where it is celebrated in March, which is why Beckham’s Sunday post was tied specifically to the US holiday. The timing mattered because the posts were aimed at American audiences and came with the kind of visibility that only a holiday built around family can deliver online.
Minogue also joined in, sharing a throwback image of herself and her mother with her 3.3 million followers and writing, “happy Mother’s Day to the BEST.” Heidi Klum posted a photo with her mother and wrote, “Ich liebe Dich Mutti,” while JoJo Siwa published a tribute to her mother Jessalynn that went well beyond a standard holiday message.
Siwa said there were “no words” to describe her mother, adding that she “continues to better me every single day, in every way possible.” She wrote, “I have her to thank for everything,” and called her “the strongest and greatest person that I know.” Siwa closed by saying, “I love you more that you know,” and added that she was “officially probably old enough to start stealing your saying and say it back to you: I love you no matter what.”
The day’s posts showed how Mother’s Day has become part family tribute, part public performance, with celebrity accounts serving as the place where private gratitude is turned into a message for millions. In Beckham’s case, that message was also a reminder that a family photo can still say as much about the present as it does about the past.
