Day: September 23, 2025

• Matthew McConaughey says a small furniture swap in the bedroom has been good for his marriage.
• He and his wife, Camila Alves, have downsized to a queen-size bed from a king-size bed, he said.
• He added that how he and Alves treat each other sets the tone for how their kids will learn love.

Matthew McConaughey says making a small adjustment to their bedroom furniture has been good for his marriage to Camila Alves.

In an interview with Fox News Digital published on Saturday, the actor said couples who sleep on king-size beds should consider downsizing.

McConaughey told the outlet that when he visits a friend’s house, all of the friend’s kids pile into a massive double king-size bed.

“The wife’s on one side with her side table, and the husband’s on the other side, and it’s great when you’ve got all three kids, but all of a sudden the kids get too big. They’re out of the bed,” he said.

When it’s just the two of them, a big bed can feel like too much distance, McConaughey said.

“I wake up one morning. I’m looking over there, and Camilla’s like a football field away, man. Then you go to bed at night, like you want to snuggle up, and ‘Well, we’ve got to cover up. You come about 12 feet and I’ll come 12 feet,’” McConaughey said.

That’s when they decided to downsize their sleeping space.

“So we got a queen-size where we’re shoulder to shoulder. I’m telling you, it’s good for your marriage,” he said.

McConaughey and Alves have been married since 2012 and share three kids: Levi, 17, Vida, 15, and Livingston, 12.

No matter how busy life gets, McConaughey says he makes sure to carve out time for his wife.

“You’ve got kids, so you’re spending as much time being a good mother and father to them, but you also got to make sure — and I can do a better job of this — of going, ‘No, this is our time,’” McConaughey said.

He believes the way he and Alves treat each other sets an example for how their kids will one day understand love.

“You got to make sure to remember that one of the best examples you can give the kids of how to treat a woman or a man, or how to treat someone they end up falling in love with down the line, is how you treat their mother and how the mother treats the father,” he said.

A representative for McConaughey did not immediately respond to a request for comment sent by Business Insider outside regular hours.

From bedtime habits to date-night rules, other celebrities have also revealed the ways they make their relationships last.

In a July 2024 interview, Bette Midler said that sleeping in separate bedrooms was the secret to her decades-long marriage to Martin von Haselberg.

The “Hocus Pocus” star added that they’ve been sleeping separately since the start of their relationship, but “it’s been a fabulous ride.”

Gordon Ramsay’s wife, Tana, said in a September 2024 interview that she and her husband often get dressed to go out on dates without their kids.

“In our relationship, having little kids again, our present to each other on our last anniversary was, we have to go to the theater once a month, and we have to go out three times a month, and we’re not allowed to wear trainers,” she said.