All the Buzz

When Matthew received a call saying he'd been voted the sexiest man alive, he remembers the first thing out of his mouth was "a lot of good laughter." His mother had a similar reaction. "She just started howling," he says. "[Then] she goes, 'Well, it's about damn time.'"

Matthew feels sexy is as sexy does. "The sexiest people don't think they're sexy," he says. "I would say people are most sexy when they're not putting on airs or trying to act like anything [other] than themselves. People who are comfortable in their own skin are the most sexy."

Matthew feels so at ease in his own skin that he hasn't worn deodorant—or any fragrance that would mask his own unique scent—since he was 14! "The women in my life," Matthew explains, "have all said, 'Your natural smell smells, one, like a man and, two, [it] smells like you. ... [And] there's only one of those."

"I'm pretty comfortable with myself," Matthew says. "My motto in life is, 'Just keep livin'.'"