The intense bodily preparation for Baywatch wasn’t good for Zac Efron’s mental health, if anything Zac Efron’s Baywatch training gave him depression. The 34-year-old discussed the unfavorable repercussions of his diet and exercise regimen for the 2017 film, in which he displayed his most chiseled body while competing with Herculean co-star Dwayne Johnson, in an interview for the magazine’s October 2022 cover story.
“I started to develop insomnia. 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. That Baywatch look, I don’t know if that’s really attainable. There’s just too little water in the skin. 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.” Zac remarked.
According to sources, Efron started feeling better six months after the movie was finished, and after taking a break from acting and living in Australia at the beginning of the pandemic, he reportedly went the other way.
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Efron has had a number of physical conditions during the previous several years, including a damaged ACL and a fractured wrist, in addition to the mental health difficulties he encountered following his Baywatch prep. He also disclosed to other sources how, when jogging in socks at home, he slipped and hit a fountain, breaking his jaw. He claimed that after falling asleep, he awoke to discover his chin bone dangling off his face.
According to sources, in 2021, after appearing in an Earth Day promotional film, Zac Efron stirred online rumors that he had received cosmetic surgery.
His mother had also called him and inquired about the subject.
The actor told the publication that his masseter muscles, which are used for chewing, “just got really, really big” when he was receiving physical treatment for his face as a result of his chin injury.
