Matthew McConaughey Celebrates Christmas on a Surfboard with Electric Toothbrushes
Thursday, January 28th, 2010 by eilhin
The perfect picture for Matthew McConaughy’s Christmas cards…featuring girlfriend Camila Alves and himself with son Levi in tow at the Grand Canyon.
Picture Matthew McConaughey’s Christmas cards…Matt, Camila, Levi, and BJ (the dog) hanging 10 on a surfboard in the Malibu waves. Okay, maybe Levi is a little young to be hanging 10 and I don’t know if dogs really have 10 toes that they can hang with but that would be a great card. Although, this picture borrowed from Matthew McConaughey’s Official Website would also be a great photo for their family Christmas cards.
TMZ has been focusing on Matthew McConaughy and his dog walking habits lately. I must admit some are pretty weird, especially when he rides a motor cycle with BJ racing behind him. McConaughy seems to be a free spirit. His motto is “Just Keep Living,” which is also the name of his foundation, j.k. livin, that he started to help teenage kids lead healthy lifestyles. Growing up in Texas probably contributed to his desire to walk a dog without a leash. I am sure it is a bit alien to him. I grew up in New York City and always felt that my dog should be running free and not attached to me with a leash. But there are laws governing that. I really don’t think that he considers it cruelty but it could be a little dangerous because he now lives in California, where drivers aren’t as wary of animals as in Texas. He probably should let BJ run free when he retreats to his 1,600 acre Texas ranch and keep her on the leash in Malibu.
Matt really seems to love animals. He helped to rescue various pets including cats, dogs, and hamsters after Hurricane Katrina. That doesn’t sound like someone who doesn’t care for animals. He also rescued a cat from a group of boys that had doused it with hairspray and was attempting to set it on fire. He may not really be too enamored with crocodiles, however. I understand that he was attacked by a croc in an isolated area in Morocco while filming a movie.
Back to Christmas…I don’t know what he buys for Camila and Levi but he gave his family headlamps for Christmas one year. He had given them electric toothbrushes the previous year. He doesn’t seem to put much thought into individual Christmas gifts. He did put thought into where he would spend Christmas one year. He visited the family in Australia that he had lived with when he was an exchange student. He hadn’t seen them in 19 years, so I am sure that they were thrilled to see him again.
Matt’s current film is a romantic comedy parodied after Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. He is a miser like Scrooge but he is stingy in the love department. He is visited by the “ghosts of girlfriends past” (which also happens to be the title of the movie). I am not too sure whether I will fork over the bucks to see the film. I may wait for the DVD as some critics are suggesting.
