David Beckham: My Mom Wasn't Happy about Underwear Ad

David Beckam made a lot of women happy when he posed in his underwear for Emporio Armani billboards last December. His mother was not one of them. "When the photos came out, she was the first one to call me and say, 'What are you doing?'" Beckham, 32, revealed to TV host, Jay Leno during the soccer star's Tuesday appearance on NBC's Tonight Show. "I had to try and explain it to her and it didn't go down that well.

"When Leno flashed one of the steamy pics, however, the studio audience squealed with approval. Beckham and the TV host also commiserated about life in the same L.A. neighborhood – with Beckham apologizing for the pack of photographers who routinely camp outside the home he shares with wife Victoria Beckham.

He did note, however, that celebrity photographers in the U.S. have been more "kind to us" than those back home in the U.K.

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