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He now has three children with his wife Camila Alves McConaughey, Levi, 12, Vida, 10, and Livingston, 7.

McConaughey also wrote about his own father in his memoir and his home life growing up.

\"He really instilled values in myself and my two brothers, values that I know I wouldn't be sitting here, the man I am with the life that I've got, if he wouldn't have worked to instill,\" he said.

Another highlight of the memoir? He shares more about the moment he first saw Alves, who he married in 2012.

\"I can't say I knew she was the one,\" he said. \"I will say this, she was moving to my right to left across a room, and it did not look like she was walking, meaning her head was not bobbing. She was more floating, and I did not say who is that -- I said what is that?\"

“I knew right away that she was something special.” @McConaughey tells us the story about the first time he met his wife and we are swooning 😍 https://t.co/5jq7jG83Tg pic.twitter.com/3LPIX2jTVg

— Good Morning America (@GMA) October 19, 2020

\"Every beautiful thing that went through my mind about who and what she was, she has turned out to be exactly that and then some,\" he continued. \"I knew right away she was something special, and then very soon over the next years is when we really fell in love, and I knew this is the woman I want to spend the rest of my life with.\"

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