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Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves celebrated their 12th wedding anniversary with a tender post on Instagram, sharing a sweet photo of both with her followers.
This Sunday, the couple uploaded a photo to their accounts showing the 54-year-old actor kissing his wife on the forehead at sunset. While he wears a cowboy hat, white shirt, and jean jacket with a lamb, you can’t appreciate her look. “Thank you,” they captioned the image, simply adding the hashtag: “Happy Anniversary”.
The couple met in 2007 at a bowling alley. In 2016, in an interview he gave to People magazine, the actor revealed that for him It was love at first sight. “We were a group of single men having a good time,” he said a few years ago. McConaughey He was making margaritas at his table when he saw the Brazilian model in the distance. “I wondered who she was and immediately started trying to get her attention from my spot. After a few seconds I knew I had to cross the track and go look for her,” she said.
To avoid the risk of her saying no, instead of inviting her alone, he proposed to the entire group of women the brunette was with that she join him and his friends. The only problem of the night was the language, since she spoke only Portuguese. However, the actor assured that that night he managed to understand everything. “The little Spanish I know helped a lot,” he admitted.
After a while, the star invited the entire group to continue the evening at her house and the model ended up staying the night in one of the guest rooms. Upon waking up, the protagonist of Dallas Buyers Club: The club of the evicted He went to the kitchen and found Camila enjoying the morning with her friends. “I walked in and there was this woman wearing the same turquoise dress from the night before, chatting with my people and having breakfast as if they had known each other their whole lives,” she recalled. The actor took her to the place where she was stopping, and in the 45 minutes that the trip lasted they listened to music without saying a word, but feeling comfortable. Three days later, they had their first date.
The couple welcomed their first son, Levi, on July 7, 2008, and their daughter Vida on January 3, 2010. In 2012, now parents of two, they walked down the aisle and married in a ceremony that It lasted three days and was held at their home in Austin, Texas. While there were a few VIP guests present on the big day, including Reese Witherspoon, Kenny Chesney and Woody Harrelson, her family took center stage, with her children taking on some of the biggest roles that day such as ring-bearing.
“We decided to accept the ritual of marriage as an opportunity and an adventure that we will undertake together,” he explained at the time. Shortly after the wedding, they had their third child, Livingston.
The actor of Interstellar and his wife do not hesitate to publicly express the love they have for each other. In another interview he gave in 2020, McConaughey He shared that before meeting Alves, he wasn’t sure he would ever find “the one,” and even felt he was trying “too much” to find her.
“I said: ‘Calm down, be yourself and if she has to come, she will come.’ And if she doesn’t come, she’s okay, you’re still a good man McConaughey,’” she confessed. “Since the night we met, I haven’t wanted to spend time with any other woman.. “I have not wanted to sleep with anyone else and I have not wanted to have children with anyone but her,” he added, showing her romantic side. “We have a love that we never question,” she added.
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