Patrick Mahomes Responds to Body-Shaming Comments

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Patrick Mahomes is addressing all of the comments about his appearance. Earlier this week, the Kansas City Chiefs TikTok account shared a video of the 28-year-old quarterback and several of his teammates arriving at the gym for some off-season workouts.

After the video was posted, many took to the comments to critique Patrick‘s body saying that he was out of shape.

In a new interview, Patrick reacted to the body-shaming comments. Keep reading to find out more…“It kind of surprised me,” Patrick said on sports analyst Pat McAfee‘s show. “I kind of thought we had the whole dad bod thing out of the way last season…in the play-offs,” Patrick continued. “But I guess people still haven’t realized that I don’t have abs.” While Patrick said that he feels great about his appearance, he said that he’s going to continue working on getting fit before the new NFL season begins. “Hopefully, one of these days, we can figure out how to get a looser T-shirt,” Patrick said, referring the outfit that he wore that ignited all of the body-shaming comments. “The backpack’s just holding my shirt in.” This isn’t the first time Patrick has had to deal with body-shaming comments.

Back in January, Patrick defended his “dad bod” after a video of him not wearing a shirt hit social media. In another recent interview, Patrick responded to teammate Harrison Butker‘s controversial graduation speech.