Zac Efron reveals his 2021 face transformation was the result of a shattered jaw after he smashed his chin on a granite fountain and sparked plastic surgery rumours
- The actor confessed it was actually a nasty accident at home that caused the massive transformation in his face
- Efron said he slipped while running at home, hit the corner of a fountain, passed out and woke up to his ‘chin bone … hanging off’ his face
- He claims his facial muscles got ‘really, really big’ to compensate for the injury and worked with a physical therapist in an attempt to counteract their growth
- He then tells how when he took a break in Australia, his ‘masseter muscles grew’
- Fans noticed something looked different about the star in April 2021 sparking rumors he decided to go under the knife
Zac Efron has revealed the truth behind the plastic surgery rumours which circulated last year.
The actor confessed it was actually a nasty accident at home that caused the massive transformation in his face.
In a new interview with Men’s Health Magazine, 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.
The star explained that he lost consciousness only to wake up with ‘his chin bone hanging off his face.’
Causing a stir: In April 2021, Efron got everyone talking when he appeared on the Earth Day! The Musical Facebook video with a more prominent square chin and jawline (pictured left, and right after he had surgery to repair his jawline)
Interesting: 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.’
Efron was the center of plastic surgery rumors 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.
What drama? 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.
Drama free: ‘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
Viral: 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
Ouch: 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.
The actor is seen in 2018, left. But just 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.
‘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.’
This story appears in the October 2022 issue of Men’s Health.
Changing shape: By January 2022, his look had changed somewhat (pictured)
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