Travis Kelce grew out his hair because of Taylor Swift, says Patrick Mahomes
He’s got that long hair, slicked back.
Patrick Mahomes revealed that his Chiefs teammate Travis Kelce has been rocking a longer hairstyle, because his girlfriend, Taylor Swift, encouraged him to do so.
“I’ve been trying to get him to grow his hair out and all of a sudden Taylor gets him to do it,” Mahomes said during a town hall with SiriusXM NFL Radio on Tuesday.
Kelce has previously gone for a buzzcut fade, but fans began to notice he had started to grow out both his hair and his mustache upon returning to Kansas City, Mo., for training camp earlier this summer.
The sides of his hair still appear to be slightly more trimmed, but the top is a little longer and loosely flows slightly down his forehead.
In addition to growing out his mustache, he also made a statement by trimming down his signature dark brown beard.
Kelce, 34, has previously not shied away from expressing interest in his grooming habits and showing off his different looks.
Shortly after winning the Super Bowl in February, Kelce went to see celebrity barber Vince Garcia for a “fresh cut.”
“After growing out the beard for 2mo it was time to cut it back down!” Garcia explained in an Instagram video at the time.
Kelce teased that he got the trim to start a “new chapter” and to “stop looking like a Neanderthal.”
Just one month later, Kelce’s go-to barber, Patrick Regan, posted a photo of Kelce getting his normal cut in preparation for hosting his new show, “Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity?”
Despite typically getting the buzzcut fade, Kelce previously needed to make it clear that he did not invent the look after a New York Times story called it the “Travis Kelce haircut.”
“Can you guys stop telling people I invented the fade? I didn’t. I walked in the barber shop one day, didn’t even know what I was getting. I didn’t invent the fade,” Kelce said on a Feb. 8 episode of his podcast “New Heights.”
Kelce returned to training camp in July after spending most of his offseason bopping around different European destinations to support Swift at her Eras Tour concerts.
