Clothing is now being marketed specifically to dudes with “dad bods,” the now socially acceptable term for any man — parent or not — who has a rounded gut mixed with some muscle tone.… ...

The Dad Bod is nothing new—just look at sitcom dads for proof—but this fixation and the fetishization of it is a recent phenomenon. Maybe it’s a backlash to the more chiseled metrosexual ...

While people love the dad bod, “mom bods” are apparently not a thing. Ellie Krupnick from Mic.com writes that mom bods “conjure up images of what media so kindly calls a ‘post-baby body.'” ...

Multiplying those numbers by Census population counts gives us 10.5 millennial dad bods, 8.1 million dad bods aged 35 to 44, and 9.2 million aged 45 to 54. So dad bod nation is about 27.8 million ...

When the dad-bod phenomenon went viral last spring, I covered my eyes and ears. And I held my nose, too, because frankly, this trend stinks. Substitute a letter and you get “bad bod.” ...

Before the dad-bod challenge, Jeffrey Tornow’s only exercise was running around with his three school-age kids, two girls and a boy. Tornow says his family approves of his svelte new figure.

Gay men’s relationship with “dad bods” is similarly tortured. Back in 2016, a writer published a viral essay in The Washington Post asking whether gays will ever have their “dad bod moment.” ...

Patrick Mahomes shared in a new interview for the TIME100 issue that while he may have a "little bit" of a "dad bod," it is also a "great body for a quarterback." ...