Zac Efron Responds to Rumors About His Alleged Facial Cosmetic Surgery

What happened to Zac Efron's face?

That's what people have been wondering since April 2021, when the actor appeared in a video by scientist Bill Nye posted on Facebook in support of Earth Day.

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surprised his fans and sparked rumors that he had undergone cosmetic surgery, particularly at the level of his mandibular line.

Asked about this by a journalist from the American magazine

, of which he is on the cover of the October 2022 issue, Zac Efron refuted these speculations, explaining that his facial transformation was due to an unfortunate accident.

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reportedly broke his jaw running around his house in his socks and slipped, banging his chin against the corner of a granite fountain.

After losing consciousness, he reportedly woke up with his chin "hanging" from his face.

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Physiotherapy

"The masseter muscle, used for chewing, works with the other facial muscles 'like a symphony,'" he continues, explaining that because of his injury, "the muscles inside his face and jaw had to compensate”.

The ex-Disney star specifies that he works with a specialist and practices physiotherapy in order to remedy this.

“The masseters just got bigger,” he claims with a shrug, “they just got really, really big.”

Zac Efron claims he wasn't even aware of these viral rumors about his face (he says he "generally avoids" social media), until his mother called him to ask if he had undergone plastic surgery.