Gordon Ramsay had to ‘step away’ when his kid requested a ‘little sister’ months after the renowned chef became a father for the sixth time.
The 57-year-old performer and his wife Tana, who had daughter Megan, 25, twins Jack and Holly, 24, daughter Matilda (Tilly), 22, and four-year-old Oscar, welcomed newborn son Jesse James in November.
He has considered having additional children, and his children have definitely provided him with food for thought.
‘This morning, Oscar said, “Wouldn’t it be nice if Jesse and I had a little sister?” And I spat my Cheerios out,’ he joked to People.
‘So yeah, I had to get up from the table and walk away… I didn’t wait to see Tana’s reaction.
‘I literally coughed my Cheerios out all over the table. So yeah, listen, who knows, right?’
Welcoming Jesse into the world has ”helped bring everyone closer’ in the family, particularly after Tana experienced a pregnancy loss at 20 weeks with their son Rocky.
Gordon – who revealed being a dad again in his late 50s is ‘keeping [him] younger’ – added: ‘We’re still super respectful and incredibly remorseful about losing Rocky. And so that was a significant moment in the family’s lives.
‘And so we tread with caution this time around and we were blessed. Jesse’s really helped bring everyone even closer.
‘And then that level of responsibility again, is just even more exciting. I want to be six times better as a dad than I was twenty-five years ago to Megan.’
The proud father has previously stated that his children would need to rely on themselves without his financial support, and has promised not to lavish them with extravagant presents.
He has now disclosed that he used to give his children pocket money – ‘every month, a couple hundred dollars.’
‘If they save that up across the 12-month period, I would match that at Christmas for them,’ he said on YouTube series Last Meals.
‘They got to stay true to their form by saving every dollar, and so when you start that practice, at sort of 10, 11, 12, 13, they got their part-time jobs, all of a sudden their minds are focused about their career paths.
‘That was the opposite way that I grew up. They are super disciplined and they are on it, man.’
