“I've got four children, and they've become 'Dad, why have you got so many wrinkles on your face when Clementine's daddy has no wrinkles?' The lines were pretty horrific, like Scarface, and I was never embarrassed by it but my children helped me become more paranoid about it. You've seen the articles: craggy face, map of Wales, ugly, deflated rugby ball. There's only so much shit you want to take. I woke up in the morning and Matilda was trying to squeeze pound coins in there. In LA it was all 'Omigod, when did you go through the windscreen?' You put up with it, but then you get fucking sick of it. I listened to what Simon Cowell said, and he said, 'Get it done, it'll make you look more…'”
— Gordon Ramsay, Gordon Ramsay: 'I was a crazy psycho'
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