Matthew McConaughey, his girlfriend Camila Alves, and their two week old baby, Levi are featured on the upcoming issue of OK!. The interview with McConaughey inside the magazine is colorful and detailed. Unlike other celebrities who give vague positive statements about their childbirth and say everything is wonderful with the new baby, McConaughey paints a gory picture of the birth room and revels in the sensory details. He describes a sweaty scene in which he was coaching Camila through the contractions and playing Brazilian music. He says that Camila was hoping for a natural childbirth without an epidural but that doctors told her she needed a c-section after what sounds like minor complications. He also reveals that he was so happy to learn they had a boy since they thought it was a boy all along and didn’t know the sex ahead of time.

“We found a great rhythm,” Matthew tells OK! about the delivery of baby Levi. “Contractions started kicking in. I sat there with her, right between her legs. We got tribal on it, we danced to it! I was DJ-ing this Brazilian music.”

Levi was born at Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center and weighed a healthy 7 lbs., 4 oz., and Matthew tells OK! he kept a detailed diary of his and Camila’s hospital experience.

“I have it all chronicled,” he explained. “Becoming a dad is something I’ve dreamed of doing since I was 10. Becoming a father felt very, very natural. We were jamming! She was sweating. No painkiller, let’s go. She just clicked into that gear that only a woman has at a time like this. We’d been up for 40-something hours, and we went from dead tired to a really steadfast, ‘Let’s handle this… let’s stay in the rhythm. Don’t let the contraction be more than you.’”

Camila, 25, wanted a natural birth and chose not to have an epidural. But in the end, Matthew told OK! it came down to what was safest for both mom and baby.

“We ended up having an epidural because, on the large contractions, the umbilical cord was being compressed. They went in and tried the vacuum. This is where I learned — and no one tells you this — but having a baby is a bloody, pukey, sweaty, primeval thing! And I mean that as a beautiful thing. It is wild. But the vacuum didn’t work, and the doctor said, ‘C-section.’

The Texas-born actor says he cut the umbilical cord in “one snip” and got to hold his son for the first 15 minutes while doctors worked on Camila. Both he and the Brazilian beauty — who waited to know the sex of their baby — say they were not surprised to find out they had a boy.

“I said, ‘Come here, little man. I saw the pecker and screamed that we’d been right all along about him being a boy. Then I brought him over to her [Camila],’ Matthew said.

“It was neat to find out what the sex was because we didn’t have the doctor tell us beforehand,” Camila agrees.

So who does little Levi look more like? “Everybody thinks he looks like me because of the hair and skin tone,” Camila says. “I think he looks more like Matthew every day.”

Matthew adds, “I’ve pulled out some baby pictures of myself, and the resemblance is amazing. This kid has a lot to learn from us. I want him to come out being a little wiser, a little cooler and a little happier than we are.”

[From OK! Magazine]

McConaughey is going to be a great dad. He’s so enthusiastic and into the whole experience and it’s refreshing to read such a visceral account of a birth instead of the bland happy descriptions we usually see. I’m looking forward to reading the whole interview and seeing more photos of newborn Levi. That little guy sure is cute. Doesn’t he look like he’s doing the karate baby pose here?

Matthew McConaughey proposed to his girlfriend (and mother of his son) hours after she gave birth, according to the National Enquirer. They say that after he held his son for the first time he wanted to get married. Which makes a lot of sense; I’m sure it’s a very emotional experience. The two are keeping the information under wraps for a while.

Hollywood playboy Matthew McConaughey has been tamed at last! And all it took was a tiny 7 pound, 4 ounce baby boy to finally persuade the “Fool’s gold” star to say goodbye to his bachelor days. Matthew popped the question to Brazilian stunner Camila Alves, 25, just hours after she gave birth to their son, Levi, on July 7, The Enquirer has learned. And she said yes!

“Camila was absolutely overjoyed - a baby and a marriage proposal on the same day,” revealed an insider. “It was magic.” The source said once Matthew held little Levi, he knew that marriage was the next step. Matt’s privately been diamond shopping, and he wants Camila to design her own engagement ring, the insider added. They aren’t announcing their marriage plans yet - and just like they sold the first photos of their baby, it’s possible they’ll try to cash in on the wedding.

…”The baby made Matthew realize that Camila and Levi are now his No. 1 priority - and nothing else in the world matters.” While they haven’t set a date, Matthew hopes to be married by Christmas, the insider said. “It will probably be something small and intimate. They want to get married on a beach at sunset.”

[From the Enquirer, July 28 2008, print ed.]

A beach at sunset sounds very Matthew McConaughey. Then again, so does the idea of him wearing a coconut bra. But it fits with his whole relaxed surfer dude vibe. I’m kind of surprised he ended up being so traditional, but it is very sweet. Matt and Camila seem very happy together, and like they’re going to make great parents. I bet they’ll manage to get married in private and tell OK! Magazine about it the next week or something.

Here’s Matthew and a friend walking to a movie studio in L.A. on Monday. Header of Matt and Camila in May – Matt committed the cardinal celeb sin of wearing the same shirt twice (gasp!!). Images thanks to WENN.

McConaughey grilling in May, 2007. Credit: Splash News
Matthew McConaughey has recorded a new radio ad for the National Cattleman’s Beef Association and after listening to it I want to savor a filet mignon and touch myself.

Here’s a link to the audio for the ad.

He says: “You see those hickory smoke signals? That’s a sure sign it’s grilling season in the land of lean beef. Some strip steaks sizzling, tantalizing the entire suburb. That delicious aroma is all the motivation you need to seek out its source. Because out here a neighbor is just a friend you haven’t fed yet. Discover the power of protein in the land of lean beef. Beef, it’s what’s for dinner.”

With those few words, McConaughey has conjured up images of luring me to his trailer with the smell of grilling meat, sometime in the pre-Camila era. Fantasy is always sexier than reality, though. We published photos of McConaughey grilling last year and he looked pretty scruffy and was likely stinking of b.o. at the time. But he’s cleaned up now that he has a girlfriend and a new baby. I can always eat a burger and dream.

OK! Magazine has new details of McConaughey’s newborn baby, Levi. They say he “has his dad’s curls and his mom’s dark hair.” They also say Matt is helping out with changing the baby and giving him baths in order to give Camila a break. The upcoming issue of OK! features Jessica Alba and her baby Honor on the cover. McConaughey reportedly made a $3 million deal with the magazine for exclusive photos of Levi. He’s only a week and a half old at this point so it may be a little while before he makes his debut.

Thanks to US Weekly for the heads up on Matt’s ad.

I’ve decided that my long-term financial plan is to either be famous or marry someone famous, and then pop out as many kids as I can so I can sell their photos to OK! and In Touch for a couple million each. I won’t act or sing or anything once I have the kids. I’ll just use childbirth as a way to make a lot of money. Sure my plan is fraught with holes, but I think it’s still the most solid thing I’ve come up with in months. And considering how much money celebs are raking in for their newborns, why wouldn’t this be a good idea?

Matthew McConaughey’s lil’ bundle of joy will be making Matt a big bundle of jack.

Our spies tell us OK! mag will shell out $3 mil for the first pics of young Levi, who was just born Monday night. And that’s not all — we’re told that the deal includes baby’s first Christmas as well.

We also hear OK! gets first right to the pics of the wedding if Matt and Cam get married — though they’ll have to pay extra for those snaps.

[From TMZ]

OK! also had the exclusive first comments from Matthew about Levi’s birth, along with an explanation of the baby’s name.

Pre-selling baby’s first Christmas is pretty masterful. Doesn’t that sound like a cute ornament to put on the tree? There can be the traditional carriage ornament for baby’s first big holiday, and then another one shaped like a dollar bill that says “Baby’s First $500,000 in the bank.” How sweet. TMZ doesn’t make any mention of what Matt and longtime girlfriend Camila Alves plan on doing with the cash. Hopefully they’ll either donate it to a charity or put it away for baby Levi.

I’m still wondering what celebs like Jennifer Lopez, Nicole Richie, and Christina Aguilera did with their hefty baby photo millions. Unlike a lot of other celebs, I haven’t heard any mention of the money going to good deeds, which makes me think it’s probably going into luxury real estate or handbags.

Photo Credits: Matthew and Camila are shown going to a party in Malibu on June 29th in the header photo. Below are the two at a Houston Dodgers/Los Angeles Astros baseball game in LA on Mother’s Day. Images thanks to Splash.

Now that OK! Magazine has the exclusive first story that Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves have named their first child Levi, I think there’s little doubt that we can look forward to seeing the baby’s debut in the pages of OK!.

I figured Matt might name his kid after some moderately obscure God of leisure, but no, he named him after the world’s most famous brand of jeans. They have a biblical explanation for choosing the name, though, and Matt explains that Levi is another name for the apostle Matthew, and that his son was born at a very significant time. Alves is Levi’s middle name, and he will not have a hyphenated last name.

Explaining how they came up with the name for their baby boy, Matthew tells OK!, “Levi was another name for the apostle Matthew in The Bible. They were, in fact, two names for the same person.

“Our son was born at 6:22 pm, and this particular time represents my favorite verse in the book of Matthew in The Bible: ‘If thy eye be single, thy whole body will be full of light.’”

Baby Levi’s middle name is taken directly from his mother Camila’s last name. “We wanted to incorporate her family name,” explains the proud new father.

To all the well-wishers and fans, Matthew and Camila have also released the following statement:

“We welcome Levi Alves McConaughey into this wonderful life and look forward to living in it with him. In the mean time and all times, just keep livin’.”
—Matthew David McConaughey and Camila Maria Saraiva de Araujo Alves

[From OK! Magazine]

Camila’s full name is so regal-sounding. I love those multiple South American names, like in a Gabriel García Marquéz novel.

Considering that Matt has an older brother who named his kid “Miller Lyte” in a warped tribute to his favorite brand of beer, Levi isn’t that bad a choice. It’s like Matt figured he may as well honor his jeans as well as the bible. Because kids bring an element of the sacred to everyday life.

Congratulations to Matthew David McConaughey and Camila Maria Saraiva de Araujo Alves on their new arrival, Levi Alves McConaughey.

Matthew McConaughey’s son and Nicole Kidman’s daughter, Sunday, share the same Monday birthday of 7/7/08. Matthew and his girlfriend, Brazilian model Camila Alves, welcomed a baby boy at 6:22 p.m. in LA yesterday, reports People Magazine. McConaughey’s rep confirmed the birth, and said the newborn weighed 7 lbs., 4 oz. There is no word yet as to the baby’s name.

In recent interviews McConaughey spoke candidly about looking forward to being a father and having an active role in his child’s life. He called fatherhood his next journey, saying “to be the architect of a little creature’s life is my next big adventure and I can’t wait for it to begin.” When asked what he’s looking forward to he said “every single day” and that he’ll definitely be changing diapers. Matthew seems like he’ll be an attentive and enthusiastic dad.

Congratulations to Camila and Matthew and best wishes for a wonderful life with their new addition.

Update: OK! Magazine had this exclusive statement from Matthew McConaughey. Do you think that means they’ve already negotiated a deal for the photos?

“A healthy baby boy was born,” Matthew tells OK! in an exclusive statement. “Camila and I were side by side the entire time. We are both tired and elated, and are so happy to have created the greatest miracle in the world — Having a child and making a family. Now comes the greatest adventure — raising one, together.”

[From OK!]

Update 2: The baby’s name is Levi Alves McConaughey. Here’s a story with more details on why Matt chose the name.

Photo Credits: Matthew and Camila are shown going to a party in Malibu on 6/29/08, thanks to Splash News.

According to several websites, a paparazzo trying to take shots of Matthew McConaughey was attacked by a roving pack of surfers. Okay not roving. But it sounds much scarier that way. It’s hard to make surfers sound threatening, and that’s really the only way I can explain this story. The photographer was assaulted, and his presumably expensive camera was thrown into the ocean. Matthew McConaughey had nothing to do with the attack. Unless he surreptitiously summoned the surfers with some kind of signal.

A paparazzo trying to photograph Matthew McConaughey at the beach told police he was attacked by a mob of surfers who threw his camera in the ocean. The 29-year-old photojournalist told sheriff’s deputies that a large group of surfers near Paradise Cove in Malibu approached him and other paparazzi about 2 p.m. Saturday and demanded the group stop taking pictures and filming.

The celebrity Web site TMZ.com posted a video Sunday showing about a dozen young men in swimsuits approaching what appears to be a group of paparazzi and yelling and swearing at them. A scuffle breaks out after one of the photographers exchanges insults with the group and at first refuses their orders to leave.

“I’ll give you a thousand bucks if you leave right now,” one of the young men in swimsuits tells the photographers. Another shoves a photographer filming the scene, and still another says, “We’ll draw a line in the beach, and we’ll fight for the beach. If you guys win, you can have the beach.”

When one member of the group shouts at a photographer, “Get a … real job,” the photographer replies, “This is a real job. What do you do?” The man replies: “I just drink beer and party.”

[From the Huffington Post]

I just laughed my ass off. “We’ll draw a line in the beach, and we’ll fight for the beach?” Then we’ll have a dance-off, and whoever loses has to burn their leather jacket, and can never dance again! A line in the beach? I love that it’s not a line in the sand. Which would have been MUCH better. I had no idea surfers were so protective of their kind. Matthew McConaughey clearly has some really great friends. Anyone who would have a beach-off is someone worthy of adding to your entourage, my friend.

Note by Celebitchy: TMZ has the video, and you can see a pack of a dozen or so surfers walking over to the paps. They say “get a real f’ing jog” and start arguing. One guy says he called the cops, and you can hear the photographers shouting back in British and Scottish accents. One Scottish photographer says “This is public property. This is a job, what do you do?” Toward the end you can see a guy hitting a photographer with what looks like a baseball bat. The man gets up and staggers away and the video ends.

Matthew McConaughey is shown out surfing with friends on Saturday, thanks to Splash News.

Actor and dad-to-be Matthew McConaughey blew off some major steam earlier this month in a small Nicaraguan bar. It’s no secret that Matty boy likes to get his party on. A man with a pregnant model girlfriend at home has to be careful not to drink too much and hit on women in a public place, so it makes sense that he’d head to South America to do his partying rather than stumbling down Sunset Boulevard. Unfortunately for him, the other bargoers in Nicaragua had access to camera phones to document his evening of drunken groping, and these photos wound up in the hands of Star magazine.

With his first child due to arrive any day now, you’d think Matthew McConaughey would be at home around the clock nesting with gal pal Camila Alves. Not quite. The Fool’s Gold star was in San Juan Del Sur, Nicaragua, on June 6 drinking himself into a near-stupor at the Iguana Bar, while groping and hitting on a number of women, Star has learned.

“He was acting like an out-of-control 18-year-old,” claims an eyewitness who was at the bar. “He already seemed to be drunk when he arrived alone, and he only got worse from there on. He was putting the make on every woman in his path, throwing his arms around them and trying to kiss them, and trying to dirty-dance with a few out on the floor. But he was a mess, slurring his words and stumbling around.

“A few minutes after he finally left the bar, someone found him searching through a sewage ditch outside. When they asked him what he was doing, he mumbled, ‘I’ve lost my flip-flops!’”

[From Star magazine via D-Listed]

Wow - that’s a night that sounds like the inspiration for a Jimmy Buffet song! Look, everyone has the right to get stinkin’ drunk once in a while– even a guy with a kid on the way. Especially a guy with a kid on the way. As for the claims that he was groping and kissing girls in the bar, the photos in Star don’t concretely back that up. If anything, the girls in the photos look a lot more aggressive toward Matthew than he does toward them. Still, if I were his 9-months-preggers girlfriend back home, I might be a little upset.

Matthew McConaughey and his girlfriend, Camila Alves, were seen out at a Houston Dodgers/Los Angeles Astros baseball game in LA on Mother’s Day. Camila was holding a pink baseball bat from the gift shop, which might indicate that she’s expecting a girl. Camila is due in July.

OK! Magazine reports that Matt plans to be a stay at home dad and has cleared his work schedule to be there for the baby:

“Matt joked if he wasn’t careful he’s wake up bald and old and having missed out on years of his kid’s life that he couldn’t get back,” a friend of the actor tells OK!.

Matthew, 38, hopes to be Mr. Mom after model-fiancee Camila Alves, 24, gives birth this summer. “He’s intent on being there for his kid the way his parents were for him,” says the friend.

“Camila’s enjoying the idea of having him around. The two are busy picking out baby names!”

[From OK! Magazine, print edition, May 19, 2008 via The Bosh]

Star Magazine reported in its recent issue that McConaughey would do pushups and workout between scenes on the set of his film Ghosts of Girlfriends Past in Boston this April. They quote a witness who says “He’d jump down and do a set of push-ups. He was dressed really nice, but he didn’t seem to care!”

McConaughey is also rumored to be in consideration for the lead of Captain America in an upcoming film version of the popular comic.

There’s not a lot of gossip about Matt because he’s been laying low and staying in with his girlfriend as they prepare for their new baby. Congratulations to them. McConaughey certainly seems excited about their upcoming arrival, and he’s sure to be a devoted father.

Thanks to Splash News for these photos.

Neither Kate Hudson or Matthew McConaughey was looking their best at the London premiere of their adventure caper Fool’s Gold last night. Hudson was swimming in a sea green silk John Galliano kimono-like dress while McConaughey’s hair looked more suited for a sock hop than a 2008 film premiere. He must be in that awkward stage between clean cut and scruffy, desperately trying to grow his hair out but unable to style it other than to poof it up.

Hudson gave an interview at the premiere last night and explained that she has green eyes and really hates it when she sees them airbrushed blue on the covers of magazines. From the way she phrased her answer, it sounds like someone specifically asked her about airbrushing:

“I just tend to let those things go. I can’t tell you how many covers of magazines I’ve been on when my eyes were blue.

“I don’t have blue eyes. I have green eyes. So, you just kind of go with it, you know, it’s like it is what it is and that’s what people do, you know.”

[From InTheNews.co.uk]

Hudson also said that she drives McConaughey crazy when she’s late for interviews they’re doing together, and McConaughey said that they’re good friends that drive each other crazy:

“He can’t stand it when I’m late,” she explained. “It drives him crazy when I’m late. And every time I come to an appointment he just looks at me and he tells me I’m tardy.

“Every time I’m, like, ten minutes late, he pulls this little face.”

But Hudson’s lack of punctuality will not prevent McConaughey from making a third film with her, the Texan actor said at the premiere at London’s Vue West End cinema.

“We are super close and we just, for some reason, really connected from the first movie we did,” he revealed.

“It continues and, like any good relationship you have with your friends, it can drive you a little crazy… We drive each other crazy, but in a good way - in a sort of loving way.”

[From InTheNews.co.uk]

I wouldn’t mind it if I was a starlet who had my fat and fine lines smoothed out for magazine covers as long as it wasn’t too obvious, but you can see how Hudson gets annoyed that they make her eyes blue. Why would they do that? Aren’t green eyes pretty too? I zoomed in on Hudson’s face and her eyes are lovely but the color isn’t that deep. Maybe editors think that the eyes should “pop” more to sell copies. It looks like no body feature is immune on the covers of magazines. The results are just an ideal version of an already gorgeous person. The emotional part of me sees those magazine covers and thinks I need to get my teeth bleached, get botox and lose 15 pounds while my logical mind fights to tell me that it’s all the magic of Photoshop. It’s hard to escape those fake images of women staring back at you perfectly, accusingly.

Also doesn’t McConaughey seem like the person most likely to be late among these two? I’m kind of surprised that mr. laid back natural smell is punctual enough to care if someone else is ten minutes late.

Thanks to WENN for these photos.