College Dad Bods looks to celebrate the men who don't spend all day at the gym. Photo / CollegeDadBods
College Dad Bods looks to celebrate the men who don't spend all day at the gym. Photo / CollegeDadBods
Love a buff, muscular guy with bulging biceps, toned pecs and a hard six-pack? Then this Instagram account is not for you.
College Dad Bods is the latest "it" Instagram sensation, which rounds up photos of college-aged men with "dad bods" - those a special breed of malephysique that is not quite muscular but not quite all beer gut, either.
These men may hit the gym sometimes, but they also won't hesitate to throw back six beers at a frat party and wash them down with a burrito - and a lot of women love them for it.
Clemson University sophomore Mackenzie Pearson, who BuzzFeed credits with starting the current dad bod trend when she wrote an essay about them for The Odyssey, said one reason some women are 'crazy about' this body type is that it's not intimidating.
"We don't want a guy that makes us feel insecure about our body," the 19-year-old wrote.
"We are insecure enough as it is. We don't need a perfectly sculpted guy standing next to us to make us feel worse."
She also added that "no one wants to cuddle with a rock", making toned bodies less desirable to snuggle up to than flabbier ones.
"Girls tend to picture their future together with their guys early on," Mackenzie went on to write. "Therefore, if he already has the dad bod going on, we can get used to it before we date him, marry him, have three kids. We know what we are getting into when he's got the same exact body type at the age of 22 that he's going to have at 45."
