Matthew McConaughey Is a Queen-Sized Bed King

The Oscar-winning actor—and second-time author, apparently—wants his bed small enough to snuggle, thank you very much.

By Audra Heinrichs  |  September 22, 2025 | 10:22am
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Matthew McConaughey Is a Queen-Sized Bed King

Like any moderately delusional, occasionally horny woman, I’ve imagined being married to Matthew McConaughey once or twice. However, because the notion of living in Texas doesn’t hold much appeal beyond being closer to the Selena Quintanilla memorial, my daydreams don’t typically last all that long. Fortunately, thanks to a new book from the Oscar-winning actor and author, any blanks I might’ve had have been filled in.

One entry in his second book, Poems & Prayers, is titled: “The best thing you can / do for your / marriage.” In it, McConaughey advises against a king-size bed: “One way to surely / get ahead, / is get rid of that / king-­size mattress, / and sleep in a / queen-­size bed.” How Shakespearean…

In an interview to promote his book on Fox News Digital, McConaughey doubled down on his anti-king-bed stance, recalling how a family friend has a bed big enough to sleep an entire family.

“The wife’s on one side with her side table, and the husband’s on the other side, and it’s great when you got all three kids, but all of a sudden the kids get too big. They’re out of the bed,” he said. McConaughey said he and his wife, Camilla Alves, followed in their friends’ footsteps, only to feel more distant than ever.

“I wake up one morning…I’m looking over there and Camilla’s like a football field away, man,” he said. “Then you go to bed at night, like you want to snuggle up … ‘Come about 12 feet and I’ll come 12 feet.’” He concluded that the bed was “not good for the marriage, man.”

“Get rid of that son of a bitch,” McConaughey went on. “So we got a queen size where we’re shoulder to shoulder. I’m telling you, it’s good for your marriage.” Personally, I don’t like sharing my bed with anyone but perhaps if it were McConaughey, the notion of sleeping “shoulder to shoulder” would hold more appeal.

This isn’t the first time McConaughey has offered unsolicited (yet not at all unorthodox) advice about successful marriage. During a joint 2024 interview, he and Alves shared another secret to maintaining their union: how to end fights.

“Go and get something sweet,” McConaughey said on an episode of podcast Your Mama’s Kitchen. “A sweet food. It can deescalate some things, even if it’s a nice piece of chocolate or some ice cream, it can de-escalate.”

Now that, I can get behind…

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