Taylor Swift is changing women's taste in men - with Gen Zs now shunning wafer-thin, baby-faced men in favour of hunks like Kansas City Chiefs player Travis Kelce

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By Dolly Busby For The Mail On Sunday

Published: 18:05 EST, 2 March 2024 | Updated: 18:31 EST, 2 March 2024

As the biggest superstar successful the world, each miss wants what Taylor Swift has – including the aforesaid benignant of partner.

Generation Z females person taken to societal media to accidental they privation a beardown rugged 'protector', conscionable similar Swift's bulky American footballer boyfriend, Travis Kelce, alternatively than a skinny, fashionable type.

TikTok, the video-sharing level favoured by teenagers, has been flooded with girls explaining they are 'joining the trend' of choosing 'strong' men similar Kelce.

Dubbed 'America's aureate couple', Ms Swift, 34, and the Kansas City Chiefs player, besides 34, person been dating since September, with their romance precise overmuch successful the nationalist eye.

One TikToker said successful a video liked 6,000 times: 'We're present successful an epoch wherever Gen Zs, who utilized to similar skinny guys, are present gravitating towards men that tin support them. Taylor Swift was a large portion of this inclination by dating Travis Kelce.'

Generation Z females person taken to societal media to accidental they privation a beardown rugged 'protector', conscionable similar Taylor Swift's bulky American footballer boyfriend, Travis Kelce 

Harry Styles and Timothee Chalamet – antecedently swooned implicit for their babe faces and wafer-thin physiques – were noted arsenic the benignant of men Gen Zs are present shunning.

A video explaining the displacement said: 'Men passim past were the warriors, the defenders, the cavemen. They hunted and fought but present they don't truly person the accidental to bash that.

'This is successful our primal instinct – males volition combat against different males and they're much charismatic to females if they win.

Harry Styles – antecedently swooned implicit for their babe faces and wafer-thin physiques – were noted arsenic the benignant of men Gen Zs are present shunning

'Even successful animated films, we emotion the prince who fought for Sleeping Beauty and slayed the dragon and helium didn't adjacent cognize her yet.' 

One idiosyncratic commented connected the video: 'I deliberation guys who cognize however to combat are the hottest happening successful the world.'

The inclination successful choosing stronger men stems from a improvement that has swept TikTok known arsenic the 'Twink Erasure' theory.

Originally a word utilized chiefly by the cheery community, a 'twink' refers to men with a babe look and slimmer physique. 

Trends implicit the past fewer years person seen men who acceptable into this class beryllium hailed arsenic the astir handsome and desired by women.

But radical connected the level present judge that 'twinks' are gaining value to go much charismatic to women. 

A representation of Chalamet, 28, which users of the level assertion shows helium has enactment connected value and tin nary longer beryllium considered a 'twink', has gone viral.

Taylor swift pictured with her erstwhile beau Taylor Lautner, who fits the 'Twink' type

Videos arguing this is portion of a wider 'Twink Erasure' person been liked up to 500,000 times.

Ms Swift has been credited for starting the inclination due to the fact that her erstwhile partners, specified arsenic histrion Tom Hiddleston and The 1975 frontman Matty Healy, had typically smaller frames and were 'arty'. 

Her fellow of six years, histrion Joe Alwyn, 33, is, astatine 6ft 2in, 3 inches shorter than NFL subordinate Kelce and of a slimmer build.

Ms Swift and Londoner Alwyn shared a precise backstage relationship, which ended successful April past year.

The Shake It Off vocalist is present enjoying a highly publicised romance with Kelce. After Kelce's squad won the Super Bowl earlier this month, Ms Swift famously ran onto the transportation and kissed him successful beforehand of a assemblage of cheering fans.

He has seen a 20 per cent summation successful sponsorship aft Ms Swift began attending games.

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