Zac Efron finally opened up about the transformation his face underwent a year ago, which sparked rumors that he had plastic surgery.
The actor told Men’s Health in its October 2022 cover story published Wednesday that he broke his jaw while running around the house in his socks.
The 34-year-old “When I Find You” star said he slipped, hit the corner of a fountain, passed out and woke up with his “chin bone…hanging” from his face.
In the midst of his recovery, his facial muscles became “very, very large” to compensate for the injury, so he worked with a physical therapist to counter their growth.
When Efron took a break in Australia, his masseter muscles “just grew,” explained the former Disney Channel star, who previously broke his jaw in 2013.
Fans first noticed Efron’s transformed face in April 2021, sparking rumors that he had gone under the knife.
The following month, his friend Kyle Sandilands denied that Efron had done a job.
“It’s like buying a Picasso and having a kid finger paint it,” Sandilands joked on “The Kyle and Jackie O” radio show in May 2021. plastic surgery”.
Zac said that his mother, Starla Baskett, was the one who told him what was being speculated on social networks due to the change in his face, because he stayed as far away as possible from social networks.
“If I valued what other people thought of me to the degree that they might think I do, I definitely couldn’t do this job,” he said.
Efron described more injuries elsewhere in the interview, from a dislocated shoulder and torn ACL to a broken wrist and blown back, though those occurred when he was training.
While the “Hairspray” star now has a mindful workout routine of yoga, stretching and self-massage, she worked out rigorously while filming “Baywatch.”
The experience led to a “dark depression” and “insomnia,” Efron told the magazine, explaining that the 2017 film “burned him out.”
“It took me a long time to focus again. Ultimately, they put it down to taking too many diuretics for too long, and he messed something up.”
Efron noted that he also suffers from agoraphobia. “I just don’t go out,” he shared, calling “people in large groups” a “trigger” for his anxiety disorder, which is characterized by an extreme fear of entering crowded spaces.
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