This article was posted on 09/11/22 titled: Zac Efron Is Finally Addressing His Shocking Face Transformation
Zac Efron has finally addressed the plastic surgery rumors that have been doing the rounds over the past few years in a very candid interview with Men’s Health. Although the 34-year-old High School Musical actor has always been a Hollywood heartthrob with beyond-enviable good looks, the drastic change in his appearance over the past few years hasn’t gone unnoticed, with fans convinced that he underwent plastic surgery to achieve a bigger and even more chiseled jawline, and a tighter, wrinkle-free complexion.
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However, according to the Neighbors actor’s cover interview for the mag’s October issue, the change in his jaw is supposedly down to a freak accident that happened in his home, which resulted in him being knocked unconscious after slipping while running in socks and hitting his jaw on a granite fountain! *Omg!*
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The Greatest Beer Run Ever actor revealed that when he regained consciousness following the accident, his chin bone was “hanging off” his face, and he promptly underwent a lot of physical therapy to rehabilitate his jaw. He told the pub that he had to add masseter muscles to the inside of his face, and his jaw had to work over time throughout the healing process, resulting in the huge change. Emphasis on the huge! “The masseters just grew,” Efron said. “They just got really, really big.”
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And it wasn’t just the changes in his face that the Greatest Showman actor addressed in the tell-all interview, as he also spoke openly about his body; in particular, how his appearance in the 2017 Baywatch movie is essentially unattainable, and required a *lot* of tricks to achieve!
“That Baywatch look, I don’t know if that’s really attainable. There’s just too little water in the skin,” he confessed. “Like, it’s fake, it looks CGId. 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, two to three percent body fat.”
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The Gold star then went into more detail about the negative effects of that intense level of training, saying that the work required for his super-sculpted Baywatch body left him with depression and insomnia. “I fell into a pretty bad depression for a long time,” he recalled. “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.” Wow – we had no idea!
This article was updated on 10/07/22 with the information below:
Zac Efron's face transformation is still a hot topic of conversation among his fans. Despite the Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile actor telling fans once and for all that the change in his appearance – his jaw, in particular – was down to a freak accident that left him unconscious, they still haven’t been able to stop talking about how unrecognizable he looks these days! And his appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon seems to have added more fuel to the fire, with fans saying he not only doesn’t look like himself, but he actually looks like another famous actor instead – fellow Baywatch actor, David Hasselhoff!
"Is it just me or is Zac slowly growing into being an exact copy of David Hasselhoff?" one fan asked in the comments section of a YouTube video of the interview. "It’s a younger version of David Hasselhoff," confirmed another. "Dude was in Baywatch once and immediately turned into David Hasselhoff," another fan added, to which another replied to, saying, "Exactly what I thought."
"When Jimmy started mentioning rumors, Zac started sweating and clinching his new jaw," one YouTube user quipped. "He should SUE his surgeon. REALLY botched his jaw implant," added another user, while another simply said they "miss his old face," followed by a crying emoji. "I can’t watch this without crying about Zac’s face," another fan wrote, followed by two sad face emojis. Another user also said that they felt sorry for the negative attention the Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates actor was getting due to his appearance, writing: "Zac is such a great actor and an incredible human being. Seeing the bullying he's been suffering lately for his look is sad."
"This is not Efron, this is an Alien who stole his body," another user commented, while someone else thought that he resembled another famous person/character instead, writing: "Why does Zac look like the joker from Batman 1989?" "What has he done to his face," asked another fan, followed by the teary-eyed emoji. "What has he done to his cheeks, nose tip, chin and lips. Omg Zac! You failed it not nailed it," commented another user.
