By Emily Sheridan

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She was criticised for not smiling during her photocall with the Spice Girls last week.

But Victoria Beckham showed she can smile when she wants to... albeit a subtle grin.

The fashion designer uploaded a candid Twitter photo of her cosied up to a dolphin on a day out with her children.

Finally a smile! Victoria Beckham looks happy to be cuddled up a dolphin at a water park

Finally a smile! Victoria Beckham looks happy to be cuddled up a dolphin at a water park

Victoria has brought her children to a aquatic park in California so her sons Brooklyn, Romeo and Cruz could swim with dolphins.

And it appears spending time with the beautiful creatures had certainly given Victoria something to smile about.

She wrote: 'Such a special day with the children swimming with dolphins!!! They are so beautiful!!!! x vb.'

Posh is back in California after a flying visit to London to launch the new Spice Girls musical Viva Forever!

Victoria was maligned by her critics for being the only Spice Girl in the line-up not to smile and also for her apparently distant body language.

'Tired': Victoria stood slightly apart from her Spice Girls bandmates (L-R) Melanie Brown, Melanie Chisholm, Geri Halliwell and Emma Bunton last week

'Tired': Victoria stood slightly apart from her Spice Girls bandmates (L-R) Melanie Brown, Melanie Chisholm, Geri Halliwell and Emma Bunton last week

Melanie Chisholm, aka Sporty Spice, defended her former bandmate: 'It's annoying when people say Victoria wasn't smiling or didn't want to be there. She really did.

'It was a flying visit and both her and Melanie [B] were exhausted as they'd flown in from Los Angeles. She was so tired but, among us, she was on great form.

'She's a very busy lady and in the middle of designing a new range. It's certainly not easy for her.'

Meanwhile, Victoria is preparing for Harper's first birthday party.

Jet-setter: Victoria flew to London for just one night and was back in LA on Thursday

The little girl is set to turn one on July 10th and Victoria has splashed out for an extravagant bash.

A source told Closer magazine: 'Victoria's spending around 50,000.

'The garden will be filled with big pink cuddly toys, pony rides, a bouncy castle, balloons and tons of cupcakes. It'll be totally pink.

'It sounds odd, but she's even hiring special dyed-pink rabbits.

'They haven't had a house party since they got their Beverly Hills mansion totally renovated so they wanted a big celebration to show that off too.'

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I honestly don't believe any of that Is true about pink dyed rabbits?! Even Victoria isn't that stupid. But as far as all that money is concerned, well to be fair, they have earned it. Yeah, it does seem like a ridiculous amount that I wouldn't dream of spending in such a way, if I ever had that much to spend. But who are we to judge the life they live?

I wouldn't call this a smile .

And a lovely smile it is. :-)

Them poor rabbits!! Dyed to amuse your children! Thats sick!

Smirks..?? really..? Is that necessary.?

SMILE?? AH YOU MAN THE DOLPHIN!

see all VB haters who says she never smiles.! She DOES smile and thats a lovely smile VB, lets see more of it!!!!!!

Smile? Looks more like wind.

If I was Victoria I wouldn't doing anything that the other bandmates can benefit from - Look at the way Emma has moved away from Victoria in the group photo. Childish.

All that money on those new enamels was a total waste, she is a natural misery guts. If that is the so called good life they all crave the moment they get their fist big booking, I'm glad I missed out. There is no need to go to LA to be miserable for a fortune, you can do it here without the paparazzi watching every twitch, and it's free, we have the coalition and Davey Boy's political suicide episodes every day without fail. Priceless.

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