Victoria Beckham has been given a lot of stick over the state of her feet. They are a cautionary tale to young girls who like tottering around in ridiculously high heels. We think photos of them have even been used on the sides of shoe boxes, like the photos of blackened lungs of fag packets...

Now VB has had enough of the mockery and apparently considerable amounts of pain and is debating whether or not to have surgery to remove her bunions.

For those of you not clued up with feet terminology (no, us neither), a bunion is a structural deformity of the bones and the joint between the foot and big toe which makes walking painful. Cripes...

The operation is quite serious and will leave the ex-Spice Girl in a wheelchair for weeks so no wonder she's not to keen on the idea. However, this news may go some way to explain why we have seen Victoria sporting flip flops recently.

Doctors are advising her to go ahead with the operation. Do Dolce and Gabbana make slippers?