Zac Efron answers those plastic surgery rumours

Actor Zac Efron has revealed the truth behind the plastic surgery rumours which circulated last year

The 34-year-old actor recalls how he slipped on a pair of socks while running at his home causing him to smash his chin into a granite fountain.

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Zac confessed it was actually a nasty accident at home that caused the massive transformation in his face and explained that he lost consciousness only to wake up with ‘his chin bone hanging off his face.’

Zac Efron has finally revealed what caused his facial transformation which put him at the center of plastic surgery rumors last year

Efron said that when he was injured the masseter muscles on the inside of his face and jaw then ‘compensated’ for his injury causing them to grow in size – hence his remarkable transformation.

He says this explains why he looked so different at the time. ‘The masseters just grew. They just got really, really big.’

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Efron was the center of plastic surgery rumours last year, but the hunky actor reveals all in the October 2022 issue of Men’s Health magazine, in which he appears on the front cover.

Science: Zac said that when he was injured the masseter muscles on the inside of his face and jaw had to compensate for his injury which explains why he looked so different at the time

He told the monthly that it was as a result of shattering his jaw and slamming his chin into the granite that totally transformed his face.

The High School Musical star also claimed to not know that he was a huge talking point on social media and had in fact gone viral for his different-looking jaw, until his mother called to ask if he had gone under the knife.

‘If I valued what other people thought of me to the extent that they may think I do,’ he told the magazine, ‘I definitely wouldn’t be able to do this work.’

In April 2021, Efron started trending on Twitter after he was seen on a video for Earth Day! The Musical displaying a more prominent square chin and heavier jawline.

The High School Musical star also claimed to not know that he was a huge talking point on social media, until his mother called to ask if he had gone under the knife

It lead fans to speculate that the handsome star had sought plastic surgery.

Efron’s pal Kyle Sandilands spoke out to say the Baywatch star would never do such a thing, comparing him to an oil painting by one of the Old Masters.

The Australian radio host, 50, who has known Zac for years, shut down speculation during The Kyle and Jackie O Show at the time.

‘I would know if he’d had any plastic surgery,’ Kyle declared, before telling his co-host Jackie ‘O’ Henderson that ‘of course’ Zac hadn’t had work done.

He then said it would be pointless for the High School Musical heart-throb to have surgery because he’s already so good looking.

If I valued what other people thought of me to the extent that they may think I do,’ he told the magazine, ‘I definitely wouldn’t be able to do this work

He said He told his jaw evolution was the result of shattering his jaw after running in the house with socks on, slipping, and bashing his chin against the granite corner of a fountain

‘It’s like getting a Picasso and having a kid finger paint all over it. Why bother?’ he said bluntly.

Kyle weighed into the debate several days after leading plastic surgeon Dr Anthony Youn offered his own hot take on Zac’s new look.

In a TikTok video uploaded at the time, Dr Youn claimed Zac may have undergone dental surgery, but not plastic surgery as some fans have speculated.

‘Everyone is talking about Zac Efron and how strange he looks. Has he had surgery to reshape his jawline, Botox or fillers?’ Dr Youn began.

‘I don’t think so. I actually think he has had dental surgery, not plastic surgery.

Three years later, his appearance, particularly his jawline had altered considerably

‘That’s why he is swollen [along his jaw]. If you’ve had your wisdom teeth taken out, did you look like this?’

The Men’s Health interview also sees Zac discuss his body transformations over the years, admitting his famously ripped appearance for the 2021 Baywatch movieis not ‘really attainable.’

‘That look, I don’t know if that’s really attainable. There’s just too little water in the skin.’ he explained. ‘Like, it’s fake; it looks CGI’d.

.And that required Lasix, powerful diuretics, to achieve. So I don’t need to do that. I much prefer to have an extra, you know, 2 to 3 percent body fat.’

The star explained how the intense training regime and bland diet of the same three meals every day, coupled with little sleep had a lasting effect on him.

By January 2022, his look had changed somewhat. ‘I started to develop insomnia,’ he says, ‘and I fell into a pretty bad depression, for a long time. Something about that experience burned me out. I had a really hard time recentering. Ultimately they chalked it up to taking way too many diuretics for way too long, and it messed something up.’

The star has since found a happy medium, after admitting that taking a complete break from training did not boost his mood in the way he had hoped.

‘At one point, that was a dream of mine—what it would be like to not have to be in shape all the time,’ he told the magazine.

‘What if I just say, ‘F**k it’ and let myself go? So I tried it, and I was successful. And for all the reasons I thought it would be incredible, I was just miserable.’

‘My body would not feel healthy; I just didn’t feel alive. I felt bogged down and slow.’

This story appears in the October 2022 issue of Men’s Health.