What Happened To Zac Efron’s Face? The ‘High School Musical’ Actor Finally Comes Clean

For over a year now, fans have been wondering what happened to Zac Efron’s face. A lot of the speculation came back in April of 2021 when Efron appeared in a “Earth Day Musical” special with Bill Nye and several other celebrities.

People took screenshots of Efron’s appearance, and then slammed him online. One user wrote, “There’s a pic of Zac Efron with terrible botox and jaw fillers circulating on Twitter.” — another user compared him to Shrek.

And for over a year, Efron avoided the speculation, but during a recent interview for Men’s Health, the 34-year-old actor revealed he broke his jaw while running in his house with socks on.

He claims he slipped, hit the corner of a fountain, passed out and woke up to his “chin bone” hanging off his face. Obviously he needed surgery to fix the injury, and during the recovery process, his facial muscles got “really, really big” to compensate for the trauma.

He was working with a physical therapist to counteract their growth, but then stopped doing the therapy while spending some time in Australia, and that’s when the muscles continued to grow. It’s worth noting, his jaw has been through a lot. Back in 2013, he broke it after allegedly slipping inside his home once again. You have to wonder if these “slips” are alcohol/drug-induced.

For what it’s worth, Efron doesn’t let the rude comments bother him too much.

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

That’s a healthy way of thinking about it, so good on him for getting to that mindset. At the end of the day, he’s still Zac Freakin’ Efron.

He still made the greatest music video in history…