Camila Alves-McConaughey recently shared that her husband, Matthew McConaughey, is the opposite of his laid-back, “getting high” persona in a new interview. The couple first started dating in 2006 while he was working on films like “We Are Marshall” and “Failure to Launch” after the success of “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days.”
Camila recalled during an episode of Southern Living’s “Biscuits & Jam” podcast, “A lot of people have this, well, I don’t think people actually had this image of Matthew anymore because, just the kind of work and things he’s been doing, but when we first start dating, it was this image of Matthew of getting high, laid back, no shirt, whatever. Which I’m like, ‘The guy doesn’t even smoke. What is this vision coming from?'”
She explained, “He’s actually the opposite, and he’s like his mom. She’s very organized, very minimalistic, very on time, very prepared, and he gets a lot of those traits from her.” Camila said when she first met McConaughey, his mother would call her by the actor’s ex-girlfriends’ names, “really testing” her. The Brazilian model once took “Ma Mac” on a job trip to Istanbul, claiming the two got into an argument.
Camila recalled, “So I just flipped it on her and brought my spicy Brazilian side, Latin side, and I let her have it. So I went back at her, and we had it back and forth, back and forth. And then at the end, she just looked at me, and she was like, ‘Okay. Now you’re in.’ She continued, “All she wanted was for me to fight back. And then from that day on, that night on, we have the most amazing relationship, and I have so much respect for her,” Camila revealed. “She has so much respect for me. I mean, it can get tricky sometimes, you know? But we always end with a good laugh and a joke.”
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When the couple married in 2012, the family moved to Texas from Malibu. Camila recalled, “And when I moved to Texas, the first thing that I noticed was how the sense of community was so present, and how their sense of, ‘We got you, and we’re gonna take care of each other,’ was really present. People really stood by what they said they were gonna do. So if they said they were gonna show up, they were gonna show up. They didn’t over-promise and under-deliver. The values there, you know, family, religion, sports, food, culture, was really, really present. So we moved to Texas. It wasn’t really planned, and I got there, and I immediately felt at home. It took me right back to my roots in a way.”
Despite being born in Brazil, Camila noted that McConaughey has made her a Texan. She said, “I joke with Matthew that we move a lot with our work, right? Sometimes, we’re away from home for a whole year, sometimes for two years, and just get little breaks. And we just go back home and kinda do our thing for a little bit, and we gotta get on the road again. And I tell him, I was like, ‘You made me a Texan.’ I’m like, ‘That’s it. That’s never going away,’ you know?”
Camila previously spoke to Fox News Digital about how living in Texas aligns more with her values with McConaughey. She shared, “It really embodies our belief system, especially the ones I grew up with, like going to church every Sunday, saying ‘yes ma’am’ or ‘no, sir.’ I grew up saying those things coming from a family of farmers,” she said at the time. “For me, being from Brazil and then coming to Texas, I discovered a lot of similarities in terms of what families practice here, especially going to church on Sundays and being very into the outdoors. It’s been a great transition.”