Melanie C archetypal opened up astir her struggles with slump and an eating disorder successful an effort she penned for The Guardian successful 2020. But the vocalist felt it was "so important" to constitute astir the topics successful her precocious released memoir Who I Am, saying, "The deciding origin successful penning this publication was the payment that it could bring to different people."

And, aft The Spice Girls became 1 of the astir fashionable bands successful the world, the 48-year-old said it became much astir "control" due to the fact that "if you are fortunate capable to person occurrence similar that, your beingness isn't your ain anymore."

"You instrumentality to the schedule. When everything other successful your beingness is retired of your control, you effort to power immoderate of the things," she explained. "That would beryllium food, workout and besides my behavior."

Given their level of success, Mel C admitted she was "petrified" to marque a mistake, "so I conscionable unopen down emotionally. I conscionable became precise quiet. And that was my life. That was my coping mechanism. I deliberation each subordinate of the set recovered their ain mode to woody with this unthinkable but rather unnerving happening that was happening to us."

While it went connected to go the best-selling azygous by a miss radical successful the world, 1996's "Wannabe" was ne'er meant to beryllium the Spice Girls' debut single, fto unsocial "ever beryllium released," according to Mel C.

"We were conscionable being silly successful the studio...and the writers we were moving with truly wanted to seizure the vigor that we had," Mel C explained of the iconic song's origin. "They molded this craziness into a song."

Mel C added that the euphony video "completely and utterly" highlighted the band's behaviour astatine the time. "We utilized to spell to grounds labels and publishing companies and we jumped connected tables," she said. "I'd bash a backflip, there'd beryllium papers flying astir the place. That's wherefore it connected with radical due to the fact that it was truthful genuine."

But the grounds statement was "so nervous" to merchandise "Wannabe" and were pushing the radical to spell with "Say You'll Be There" arsenic their archetypal single. While Mel C acknowledged that is "a large song," she said the 5 members banded unneurotic to combat for "Wannabe" to beryllium their debut. "We were like, 'No privation to beryllium has to beryllium the archetypal azygous due to the fact that it's the instauration to america and fto the satellite cognize who we are.'" Girl power, indeed.

In 2019, the Spice Girls went connected their 4th performance tour, selling retired each 13 shows and earning $78.2 cardinal successful summons sales. But it was acold from a farewell tour. 

Asked when, not if, the set would execute again, she responded, "Well, it is going to beryllium when. We are inactive talking astir however and erstwhile that's going to happen, but we privation to bash it. So fingers crossed it volition beryllium earlier excessively long."

But fans shouldn't expect to spot Victoria Beckham—who opted retired of the 2019 circuit to absorption connected her vocation arsenic a manner designer—finally instrumentality to the signifier successful her Posh Spice micro-dress and heels, though Mel C said, "She's inactive precise overmuch portion of the band. She's ever precise progressive successful the decisions that we make."

After Victoria began dating David Beckham successful 1997, the remainder of the set members rapidly welcomed the shot superstar into the Spice family, which was not a communal occurrence. 

"There's not galore radical allowed into the interior circle, but arsenic soon arsenic we met David we truly liked him due to the fact that astatine that clip helium was rather quiescent and shy," Mel C said. "He didn't get involved. That's the biggest mistake of immoderate Spice Partner to bash is get progressive successful immoderate set politics. That's a large nary no. It was lovely. He decidedly would go 1 of the girls and we took him nether our wing."

But determination was 1 flimsy issue: What his Spice sanction would be, arsenic Mel C joked, "He'd beryllium the existent Sporty Spice. Wouldn't helium beryllium successful trouble?"

Yes, conscionable similar you and your friends, the Spice Girls person a radical chat. 

"We person a few, antithetic ones for antithetic things," Mel C revealed. "We're ever successful interaction and we're ever perpetually talking astir getting things unneurotic and what we privation to do."

One existent taxable of speech is however to observe the 25th day of Spice World aboriginal this year. 

Sure, Simon Cowell would spell connected to go a prima successful his ain right, acknowledgment to American Idol, The X Factor and America's Got Talent, successful summation to launching the careers of the One Direction bandmates, but backmost erstwhile the Spice Girls were archetypal starting out, helium passed connected the accidental to motion them to his grounds label. "Spice Girls is astir apt my biggest mistake," Cowell told Jay Leno successful 2013. 

But Mel C said there is nary atrocious humor betwixt Cowell and the band, with galore of the members having worked alongside him connected assorted world contention bid implicit the years.

"He's gone connected to bash unthinkable things, but erstwhile we met him arsenic the Spice Girls backmost successful the day, helium was conscionable different feline that we met astatine a label," she explained of the then-recording exec. "It was truthful comic to ticker his meteoric rise."

She added that she didn't deliberation the Spice Girls "would beryllium a bully fit" for Cowell anyhow "because we were conscionable a small excessively outspoken for him." 

Having grown up successful a tiny municipality successful England wherever galore people, including galore of her household and friends, "struggled to wage bills," Mel C admitted she struggled with her success.

"I went retired that I'm fulfilling this puerility dream...I can't adjacent telephone it a job," she explained, "because I'm connected signifier singing and dancing for radical and I'm earning much wealth successful a time than my household gain successful a year. Making bid with that is hard and not galore radical speech astir that."

Becoming "the caput of the household successful my aboriginal twenties due to the fact that I tin spend to assistance radical financially" caused an "interesting dynamic shift," 1 Mel C said she wasn't prepared for arsenic a young creator astatine the time.

"Because you request to beryllium cared for and there's truthful overmuch much that comes with fame than we realize," she explained. "We look done past astatine however galore radical person had problems and person issues. We request to enactment young radical much successful that environment."

One of the "most fun" aspects of penning Who I Am for Mel C was reliving each of the memories the set made, including the time Geri  Halliwell infamously patted King Charles III's butt astatine the London premiere of Spice World successful May 1997.

"I was 1 of the quieter members of the set but erstwhile we were together, it truly conscionable felt truly courageous," Mel C said. And past acknowledgment to the truly outspoken members similar Mel B and Geri retired determination breaking protocol, it was similar erstwhile we were together, we were unstoppable and we utilized to emotion it. If radical told america to not bash something, past we would marque definite we would bash it."

In Who I Am, Mel C writes of her struggles with being bullied during her childhood, an acquisition she relates to dealing with the paparazzi and tabloid attraction she received aft becoming famous. 

"Nothing tin hole you for fame," Mel C told E!. "You are pursued by paparazzi, you are commented connected by the media and it's a whirlwind and you're conscionable trying to navigate the full thing. It becomes rather difficult."

She continued, "I've been bullied successful antithetic dynamics, whether it beryllium wrong the set script and past by the media. Then you conscionable think, ‘Wow, I was I was a kid beauteous overmuch and I was uncovering my way.' All 5 of america were criticized heavy and continuously passim our careers and that truly hard to woody with erstwhile you're young."

Like a genitor picking a favourite child, it was a hard task for Mel C to highlight conscionable 1 of the band's tunes, though she noted she has a fondness for their "beautiful ballads," including "Two Become One," "Viva Forever," and "Too Much."

But the group's medley show of "Wannabe" and "Spice Up Your Life" astatine the 2012 London Olympics holds a peculiar spot successful Mel C's heart. 

"Those songs are benignant of silly, but they are the vigor and the essence of the Spice Girls," she said. "And since that show to this day, they're my favorites."