McConaughey, the youngest of three boys, was born in Uvalde, Texas, the son of Mary Kathleen "Kay" (née McCabe), a substitute school teacher, and James Donald McConaughey, a gas station owner who ran an oil pipe supply business and once played football for the Green Bay Packers. McConaughey has Irish ancestry and had what he describes as a strict Baptist upbringing. McConaughey's mother and late father divorced and re-married each other several times, in what McConaughey describes as a "loving, but unstable relationship".
McConaughey moved to Longview, Texas — located east of Dallas. He lived for a year in Gorokan, New South Wales, Australia as a Rotary exchange student.
McConaughey's personal motto is "Just Keep Livin" and his foundation is called JK Livin Foundation. JK Livin Foundation's main purpose is to help young people live "fuller" lives. On October 24, 1999, McConaughey was arrested at his home in Austin, Texas on charges of possession of marijuana and resisting arrest. The police were responding to a 2:30 a.m. noise disturbance call. According to police reports, McConaughey was dancing around naked and playing bongo drums with a friend, actor Cole Hauser, a co-actor in Dazed and Confused (1993).[11] The drug charges were dropped, but McConaughey pled guilty for violating the city's noise ordinance and paid a USD $50 fine.
McConaughey rescued various pets, including cats, dogs and hamsters, that were stranded after the flooding of New Orleans from Hurricane Katrina.[12] In 2006 in Sherman Oaks, California, he rescued a cat from two youths who had doused the animal in hairspray and were attempting to set it on fire.
McConaughey's personal life is the subject of media attention. He has dated actresses Sandra Bullock, Kate Hudson, Ashley Judd, Salli Richardson, and Penelope Cruz.
In Sports, McConaughey is a big Texas Longhorns fan and is also a huge Washington Redskins fan.
McConaughey and his Brazilian Supermodel girlfriend, Camila Alves, welcomed a son named Levi Alves McConaughey on July 7, 2008 in Los Angeles. He was born at 6:22 p.m. and weighed 7 pounds, 4 ounces.
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