Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves are one of Hollywood's sweetest couples, and they've been married for 8 years and together for a stunning 14 years.

However, you might be surprised to know it wasn't exactly love at first sight on Alves' part, because as People reports, Alves didn't know who the actor was when they first met. "We had two interactions at the bar. The first interaction, I did not know who he was," Alves hilariously revealed. "At the time he had a really long beard, and he had this rasta hat. He was all covered up, and I didnt really realize who he was."

Fortunately, the couple was able to click, and they've been together ever since. Here's what else you need to know about Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves.

The couple met at a bar in West Hollywood, with McConaughey telling People that he first saw Alves as an "aqua green figure floating across the frame, and my eye went up, and I said, 'Who is that? What is that?'" McConaughey then struck up a conversation with the Brazilian-born Alves in Spanish, since he didn't know any Portuguese.

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Alves also revealed that it was McConaughey's close friend Lance Armstrong who tipped her off to who the actor was. "Lance came to talk to me," she explained. "You knew they were always together, so Im like, OK, Im outta here. Im going to the other side of the room!

And while McConaughey said that he had been happily single for a while before meeting Alves, he believed that she was the right person for him at the right time. "We went out on our first date three nights later, and the next night I wanted to go on another date. And I've been wanting to go on a date with her for the last nine years. And not with anybody else."

McConaughey proposed to Alves on Christmas Day 2011, and they got married on June 9, 2012 in Austin. Guests at the wedding included Woody Harrelson, Reese Witherspoon, and filmmaker Richard Linklater, and one source told Us Magazine that the luxury campout-themed nuptials were "very emotional. There was a moment when [Matthew] leaned down and whispered something in [Camila's] ear and you could see a tear coming down her face. Everyone let out a collective sigh."

And while Alves revealed she was happy to marry McConaughey, she also saw the wedding as an extension of the life they already had together.

"We've been living a married life for over six years now. We have homes together, we have family together, we have kids, we've built a life together. So we've been living a married life this whole time," she explained.

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McConaughey and Alves welcomed son Levi in 2008, daughter Vida in 2010, and son Livingston in 2012.

In 2014, McConaughey talked to GQ about being a father, saying that it was "the one thing Ive always wanted to be. I knew when I was 8 years old. I mean, I wanted to be things like the Washington Skins running back and all that stuff, but the one thing I knew I wanted to be was a father."

And while Alves told Us Weekly that wrangling three kids can be tough, she also makes sure that she and McConaughey get some alone time. "It's important to remember that you and your husband came first, and that relationship needs to be nourished...[we enjoy] a lot of staycations, cooking together and staying at home, or getting a hotel room that's 10 minutes away from the house."

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As E! reports, McConaughey and Alves are also pretty accepting when it comes to their kids. "The main thing is that my wife and I, Camila, we have a similar moral bottom line," McConaughey said on Today in 2018. "And as you learn, if you have kids, every day they get older, you realize how much more it's really DNA. We can nudge 'em and shepherd 'em, et cetera et cetera, but they are who they are. And right now, I'm just happy to say we have three healthy ones and they're very much individuals."

Most recently, the couple talked to Town & Country about their Just Keep Livin' Foundation, a non-profit that works to help high school students by providing them with the tools to make healthy and safe choices for a better future, both physically and mentally.

"Ive always been a hedonist, and part of having a foundation is putting a capital H on hedonism. Being able to give back in ways is a selfish endeavor. It feels good to me to see a smile or hear a young person say thank you," McConaughey revealed.

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