Matthew McConaughey’s family news with Camila shocked his mother
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For Matthew McConaughey, the moment he found out he was going to be a father was the only thing he ever dreamed of, but things took an unexpected turn when he shared this news with his mother.
“I always knew I wanted to be a father,” he said “Last Weekend with Theo Von” He added that the real challenge is finding “a woman that you fall in love with and know will be a great mother.”
That’s exactly what he found when he met Camila Alves; but marriage was not the next step.
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Matthew McConaughey says he and Camila Alves don’t want to get married just because “they should.” (Kevork Cansezyan)
“Maybe it’s because my parents were married three times and divorced twice, and his parents were married twice and divorced three times… We had a track record of, ‘Well, I don’t know about that.'”
McConaughey said the two were successful as a couple and were not interested in getting married just because others insisted they do so.
“So, we’re moving forward…it’s going great and we don’t want to get married because that’s just what you’re supposed to do,” he said. “I don’t want to come back to this just because someone said, ‘Legally, this is…’ No, that’s ridiculous, that’s what I want to do. I wasn’t against it, but we were thinking: ‘We’re doing well.'”
That all changed one night when McConaughey came home with a scene he didn’t realize he was preparing for a life-changing stunt: a cheeseburger on the grill, his favorite tequila, and a gift.
Matthew McConaughey and Camilla Alves got married in 2012. (Rick Kern/WireImage)
He opened the gift and found a sonogram. They shed “tears of joy” together, then decided to call his mother and tell her the good news.
As soon as he said they were waiting, the line went silent.
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“Crickets,” he recalled. “The next thing you hear is, ‘No, no, no, no, no, Matthew! This is against the rules! I didn’t raise you to do this. No, Matthew, you need to get married!’ “He went on a five-minute monologue, moved on, and then hung up.”
McConaughey and Alves have three children: Levi, Livingston and Vida. (Rick Kern/Getty Images)
Ten minutes later, McConaughey’s phone rang again. Her mother called again and asked her to put her on speakerphone so she could talk to both her and Alves.
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“‘I want to whiten this last one a little bit… I was being selfish, thinking about myself,'” he told them. “‘If you two are happy about this, I should be happy for you too. It’s not my place to be unhappy.'”
McConaughey said his mother soon apologized for her initial reaction to the pregnancy news. (Getty Images)
McConaughey said that moment helped reset everything, and he and Alves went on to start their family.
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“So we had two children before we got married,” he said, emphasizing that the journey went exactly as planned for them.
McConaughey and Alves married in 2012. Shortly after their wedding, the family moved from California to Texas.
The couple has three children: Levi, Vida and Livingston.
Fox News Digital has reached out to McConaughey for comment.
