{"id":22381,"date":"2011-12-27T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/12\/matthew-mcconaughey-and-camila-alves-inside-their-relationship\/"},"modified":"2011-12-27T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T20:00:00","slug":"matthew-mcconaughey-and-camila-alves-inside-their-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/27\/matthew-mcconaughey-and-camila-alves-inside-their-relationship\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves: Inside Their Relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Camila Alves and Matthew McConaughey<\/p>\n

Joe Scarnici\/Getty<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Four years ago, Matthew McConaughey<\/a>‘s relationship with Brazilian model Camila Alves was revealed to PEOPLE<\/a> in a 2007 cover story.<\/p>\n

“She likes roughing it,” a source said at the time. “She doesn’t complain when they go hiking for 10 days without clean clothes or a shower.”<\/p>\n

On Christmas Day, McConaughey’s longtime love \u2013 and mother of his two children, Levi<\/a>, 3, and Vida<\/a>, who turns 2 in January \u2013 became his fianc\u00e9<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“just asked camila to marry me,” the actor, 42, wrote on his WhoSay<\/a> account. “merry Christmas.” <\/p>\n

Their road to engagement took nearly five years \u2013 the couple met in 2006 \u2013 but now that the question has been popped, PEOPLE takes a look at their show-stopping<\/a>, not to mention sexy<\/a>, romance.<\/p>\n

‘The Right Woman’<\/h4>\n

When he was crowned PEOPLE’s Sexiest Man Alive<\/a> in 2005, McConaughey said he’d get married one day \u2013 when “I’m with the right woman and it’s the right time.”<\/p>\n

A year later, he was facing engagement rumors.<\/p>\n

“Everyone is convinced he’ll be with her for a long time, if not forever,” a source close to the actor told PEOPLE<\/a> in October 2007 about the actor’s relationship with the down-to-earth beauty, now 29.<\/p>\n

A month before, they had moved into a $1.1 million modular home in Malibu. They already had mystery matching rings.<\/p>\n

The couple continued to step out together<\/a>. “They were laughing the entire time,” said an onlooker who glimpsed McConaughey and Alves at a Japanese restaurant in November 2007. “What a great couple.”<\/p>\n

Baby on the Way<\/h4>\n

Their relationship quickly went from sexy<\/a> to serious: In early 2008, McConaughey told his fans that he was starting a family<\/a> with Alves.<\/p>\n

That summer, they welcomed their first son<\/a>, Levi.<\/p>\n

“He’s a man \u2013 he’s my man \u2013 and we’re a family,” Alves gushed months later<\/a>. “He’s the best dad he can be \u2013 100 percent hands-on.” McConaughey called<\/a> his leading lady “the love of my life.”<\/p>\n

However, marriage wasn’t on McConaughey’s mind. “It’s just not something I plan on doing right now, and that I feel like I need to do right now,” he told reporters<\/a> in April 2009 while promoting his romantic comedy, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past<\/em>. “It’s not an institution I’m against at all. I’m actually for it, believe in it and have seen it actually be very, very healthy for many relationships.”<\/p>\n

Kissing and Telling<\/h4>\n

The couple rung in the New Year with a new baby in 2010: daughter Vida<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And with an acting career and a family life to balance, the actor was taking his romance with Alves to new heights.<\/p>\n

“We went up to 3,000 feet and I had on hiking shoes and I was all set up and ready to go,” he said in February 2011<\/a> about a trip with his ladylove to French Polynesia. “[Alves] was wearing Havaianas sandals and a white skirt. I came down to the bottom of that hill afterward and had blood on me, [all] muddy \u2026 and that girl didn’t have a speck of dust on her.”<\/p>\n

The bachelor-turned-family man told PEOPLE<\/a> in March 2011 that he was learning Portuguese, Alves’s native language that she grew up speaking in Brazil.<\/p>\n

And perhaps his favorite word in Portuguese sheds some light on the romance between him and his now-fianc\u00e9. “Beijos,” is his favorite expression, he said, which translates to “kisses” in English. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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