Who is Matthew McConaughey’s Brazilian model wife, Camila Alves? She went pantless for the Pantalones Tequila promo, worked with Valentino and Mango – and starred in Bon Jovi and Ne-Yo’s music videos
Yup. The long-time married couple decided to bare their lower bodies for their campaign video launched last week. Pantalones, the name of their brand, also means pants in Spanish … get it?
“Pantalones Organic Tequila – the best thing we’ve made with our pants on,” they say in unison in the clip.
So, who is Hollywood giant Matthew McConaughey’s 41-year-old partner – in both business and life?
Camila Alves is a Brazilian model
According to Hello!, Camila Alves hails from Itambacuri in Brazil. She moved to the US in her teens to pursue modelling in New York City.
Per the same source, she has worked with brands like Valentino, Carolina Herrera and Mango.
She starred in music videos for Bon Jovi, Ne-Yo and Chingy
Besides fashion, Alves has also dipped her feet in music.
She was in music videos for songs like Bon Jovi’s “Misunderstood”, Ne-Yo’s “Because of You” and Chingy’s “Pullin’ Me Back”.
She’s an entrepreneur
Alves has tried her hand at entrepreneurship, too. According to Hello!, she launched a range of leather handbags called Muxo in 2010, started a lifestyle brand named Women of Today in 2016, and ran an organic food company dubbed Yummy Spoonfuls for kids.
She shares three kids with her husband
The Dallas Buyers Club actor and his beautiful wife share three kids together.
Their eldest son, Levi, is 15, and they also have a daughter, Vida, 13, and another son, 10-year-old Livingston.
She has mother-in-law troubles …
Getting to know your mother-in-law isn’t always easy, at least not at first – just ask Alves. “She did all these things when I first came in the picture, right? She was really testing me,” Alves said on an episode of Southern Living’s Biscuits & Jam podcast. “I mean, really testing me.”
“She would call me by all of Matthew’s ex-girlfriends’ names, she would start speaking Spanish with me in a very broken way, kind of putting [me] down a bit. I mean, all kinds of stuff,” said the model.
Eventually, Alves said she realised she had to “fight back” to get her hubby’s mother’s approval and now “she has so much respect for me”.
How did Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves meet?
It was love at first sight!
Per Us Weekly, The Wolf of Wall Street actor, now 53, met his then future wife at a bar in Los Angeles back in 2006. “That night I spoke 25 minutes of the best Spanish I’ve ever spoken in my life,” said McConaughey in an interview with Howard Stern over a decade later, adding, “She spoke Portuguese. I don’t think I ever understood Portuguese as well as I did that night. I was focused. It worked.”
After six years together, the couple tied the knot in a three-day celebration in Austin, Texas, in 2012, inviting A-list guests like Reese Witherspoon, Kenny Chesney and Woody Harrelson, per People.
- McConaughey and his wife Camila Alves just launched Pantalones Tequila, joining a list of celeb-backed spirit ventures like Kendall Jenner’s 818 Tequila and Ryan Reynolds’ Aviation Gin
- After the couple went ‘pantless’ for their promo campaign, many fans were left wondering about the Interstellar star’s wife, with whom he shares 3 children, and who he married in 2012 in Austin, Texas