Zac Efron needs you to know: He didn’t get plastic surgery, he broke his jaw running too fast around his house
In a new interview, the actor addresses something called "Jaw-gate" that apparently occurred
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Remember that time last April when people thought people thought Zac Efron got plastic surgery because of an Earth Day video he posted with Bill Nye? And Efron’s Australian friend came forward to defend him? Not really? Well, he remembers it, and in a new interview with Men’s Health, the The Greatest Beer Run Ever star pours water on the fiery rumors with an objectively silly (and painful) story.
Despite the extensive training the actor has undergone in the past for films like Baywatch and Neighbors, Efron didn’t injure himself that way. Per Efron, his jaw broke in the most Risky Business way a bone can. Whilst racing through the house in socks, Efron slipped and conked his chin on a granite fountain, knocking himself unconscious. When he came to, he says, he could see and feel his chin bone dangling from his face.
The break was far from Efron’s first serious injury—four years ago in the span of just a year and a half, he reportedly suffered a torn ACL, dislocated shoulder, broken wrist, and injured back. The shattered jaw, however, was the most visible, and the most hotly discussed. Efron says the altered size and shape of his face in the Earth Day video was a result of his masseter muscles, which allow the mouth to chew, being inflamed. “The masseters just grew,” he says. “They just got really, really big.”
Although Efron didn’t directly use the phrase “Jaw-gate,” he did appear to touch on his experience with the controversy, asserting that brushing off online fanfare is just another day on the job.
“If I valued what other people thought of me to the extent that they may think I do,” he says, “I definitely wouldn’t be able to do this work.”
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Zac Efron needs you to know: He didn’t get plastic surgery, he broke his jaw running too fast around his house
He responded directly to a question from an interviewer for an article that was mostly about his physical appearance. I’m not that invested in Zac Efron or Hattie Lindert, I just don’t understand the OMG-why-is-he-talking-about-this tone of celebrity gossip bloggers when (1) The answer is usually that someone asked them about it and (2) it’s apparently interesting enough for you to write about.
Wait’ll Tom Hanks weighs in.
Also it’s the same sites foaming at the mouth about this celebrity’s new appearance who later act like “who really ever cared about THAT?!” when the clicks dry up.
God damn I can’t believe that people really thought that other people actually thought that.
with scissors?
To note, I told my 9 year old about this. Not because she knows who Zac Efron is but to illiterate why she should not run through the house in socks.
In my day, the playground wasn’t made of all this soft, Nerf, foamy shit. It was hard. And sharp. And rusty. And we grew up just fine! Except those of us who died from blunt trauma or tetanus.
Who here hasn’t been running around their house in socks and slipped into their granite fountains?
Isn’t this the “Jaw gate”?
Like a supermassive black hole, your comment should attract all the stars toward it.
Something like 78% of preventable deaths occur in the home. Because of stuff like this we no longer walk around the house without shoes and no one runs anywhere.
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We dance. I just don’t moon-walk in socks. Spend 12 hours in a waiting room after breaking a couple of toes on the stairs and then come back with your jokes.
I didn’t realize a broken jaw could make your beard change colours.
I absolutely HATE when I smack head first into my granite fountain. And the other day I chipped my tooth on the solid gold bathroom urinal. Home is a dangerous place.
Got a little too crazy shaking booty in your bathroom eh? We’ve all been there, though my injury was from my solid gold dining room urinal.
Were Florence Pugh and/or Harry Styles involved?
While I’m sure breaking his jaw was a traumatic and painful experience, he seems to have gotten over it just fine. It’s all the gossip consumers who were freaking out over the temporary change in his appearance. To be honest, the photo of him while he was still healing up didn’t look all that different, other than his jaw muscles looked a little beefier—more like a Rob Lowe jawline. The whole thing reminds me of Hansel in Zoolander 2 when he was hiding his “hideous” facial scar, which turned out to be an extremely minor scratch.
Yeah right. He’s just injuring himself horribly just so he’ll have an excuse to go under the knife. I did the same thing once. I took a sledge hammer to both my ass cheeks just so I could get a butt lift at the same time.
is your butt sufficiently lifted now?…
Well, that’s certainly not going to dispel the cocaine rumors.
This is going to keep happening until the indoor-granite-fountain industry gets serious about safety.
I believe him. Otherwise how else would he know the word masseters? If he was lying he’d have used the word jaw muscles like a normal human.
Has he looked at his face? Does he think we can’t see his face?
With a pickle in his mouth?