Victoria in panic over 50th birthday

Victoria Beckham is "up and down" about this major milestone as husband David tells her to embrace her fifties, a source tells new

- Kenzi Devine

Victoria Beckham is about as happy and successful as celebrities come. But as she nears her 50th birthday, she is thought to be feeling conflicted and "panicked" about the milestone, a source has told new.

"Victoria has been up and down about turning 50," the source said.

"Sometimes she's really embracing it and other times it scares her and she hates the fact she's going to be in her fifties.

But the pop star turned fashion designer, whose birthday is on 17 April, has strong support in the form of husband David, who will be entering his fifties next year and is encouraging his wife to take it all in her stride.

"As David and all of her friends and family have told her, there's nothing she can do about it so she just has to embrace it, which is what she's trying to do," continued the source.

Victoria is juggling worries about ageing with thoughts about her four children Brooklyn, 25, Romeo, 21, Cruz, 19, and Harper, 12 growing up and flying the nest. With Brooklyn married to heiress Nicola Peltz and living in the US, and Romeo carving out a football career, it feels like a whole new chapter for the whole Beckham brood.