http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/women-lusting-dudes-dad-bod-article-1.2214449Flab is the new fab.
No need to lose the beer belly, fellas: Women are lusting after dudes with "dad bods" — a little extra gut around the middle.
“(It shows) you love life but also have the good sense to not let yourself completely go,” says Marie Dugo, a 26-year-old marketing manager from the Upper East Side. “You can take them to family parties and eat cake together.”Ladies love guys who put the focus on fun, not physique, saying they’re friendlier, more mature and less narcissistic.
“He would come across as a fun, goofy guy not stuck on himself,” said Diane Hunt, 50, of Jersey City.
The love is spreading across the country, and even the world, with women as far away as Scandinavia cherishing the chub.
“Looking too fit can come across as self-centered,” said Dothe Lodberg, 22, from Denmark.
And guys certainly aren’t complaining.
“You look at the people on Men’s Health and they all have 13-pack abs,” says Alan, a 37-year-old corporate banker from Inwood.
“The fact that society is starting to find normal physique sexy is a good thing.”But don't call "dad bod" a trend — men have been letting themselves go since the dawn of time. But the topic entered the zeitgeist last week when 19-year-old Clemson University sophomore Mackenzie Pearson wrote a pro-dad bod piece in her college magazine, The Odyssey.
She called the dad bod "a nice balance between a beer gut and working out.” Her article has since been shared 452,000 times.
To Pearson, the man with the dad bod goes to the gym, but he also pigs out on pizza. He drinks protein shakes, but isn’t above a platter of wings. His mere physical presence suggests cuddling and unpretentiousness.Since writing her piece, men have thanked her for helping them feel less insecure about their less-than-buff bods.
"Guys are flattered," Pearson said. "They weren't ashamed of this body type, but now they have a reason to be proud of it. Someone young and female has said, 'This is what I'm looking for.'"
New York Magazine took the movement one step further last week when it created a hypothetical diet for men wanting to look this schlubby: Orange Gatorade, Clif Bars and Trader Joe's frozen burritos all made the cut.
Some think the movement is both sexist — it’s like the male equivalent of being a MILF — and old. After all, gay men have fetishized “bears” for years.
But the main problem with the dad bod is maintaining it when you’re a real dad.
"The dad with 'dad bod' is working to keep it just at 'dad bod' level," said Brett Singer, 44, a writer on the Upper East Side. "Once you've got kids, if you want to wear the same pants as when you were 20, you're gonna have to hit the gym."
