Actor, sometime director, occasional model, and even more occasional sperm-seller Vincent Gallo is insecure about his looks. A Golden Gloves boxer when he was younger, he stopped boxing because he was afraid of “changing” his nose, he said at the Adidas Y-3 show on February 3. “When you’re vain and you can’t stand your face, even the way it is, you don’t want to take any more chances.” Why can’t he stand his face? “Because it started off so nice—the little button nose and long blond hair,” he said. “And then God punished me.” Can it really be so terrible? After all, he gets hired as a model. “Yeah, for irony.”

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