Matthew McConaughey reveals marrying wife Camila was the ‘biggest risk’

Matthew McCounaughey, in a podcast, revealed that the ‘biggest risk’ he took in his life was nothing related to his career but to his personal life as marrying his wife, Camila Alves, seemed a risk.

The Interstellar star tied the knot with Camila more than a decade ago in 2012, after dating her for six years. The couple has three children out of which, two were born out of wedlock.

He said that he was afraid of committing to someone for life. Recalling his pastor’s words as he tried to convince him, he said, “My pastor goes, ‘Let me just ask you this, Mr. Risk Taker. What’s the bigger risk? Carrying on like you’re going, or taking the deeper dive into the sacrament covenant of marriage… a covenant between you and her and God? That will be a whole new adventure in itself.’”

Hearing the wise man's advice, Matthew adds, “I was like, oh, the getting married’s a bigger risk.”

From then, the actor says he made up his mind to propose to his now-wife. “I didn’t want to do it because that’s what you’re supposed to do. I didn’t want to do it by the book.”

Following their marriage in June 2012, Matthew and Camila welcomed their kid the same year in December.