Matthew McConaughey,Camila Alves and kids, Two kids and nearly six years later, Matthew McConaughey popped the
question to his longtime lady love, model Camila Alves, over the holiday
weekend. Her answer? A big yes!
The actor confirmed the engagement on
Twitter.
"Just asked camila to marry me, merry Christmas," he tweeted
on Christmas Day, also posting a photo of him and Alves kissing next to
Christmas
decorations.
The couple have a 3-year-old son, Levi, and a
daughter, Vida, who turns 2 next month.
In the March issue of Esquire,
the actor gushed about his bride-to-be. "Before this, I had a super
home in the Hollywood Hills that I did by myself — landscaping,
detailing pretty much everything. But that house was mine. And yeah, we
coulda gone in there right away. Camila would have said, 'Fine, don't
change a thing.' But I thought, 'I found the woman I wanna do it with,
the woman I wanna make a family with, hopefully live our life out
together.'
She needs to have 50 percent of that," he said. "I mean, it's
a lot easier for me to be at 100 percent. I'd always been 100 percent.
It's braver for me at 50 percent."
In September 2008, McConaughey opened up to People
about Alves, calling her "the love of my life." The two began dating in
2006. "I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great,
but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all
happen," he said. "We're a family now. I see the future and it's clearer
to me now. Walking around with this cool responsibility all the time,
it's a wonderful thing."
