In 2017, Zac Efron played a lifeguard in the film “Baywatch.” It was a role that he had to get super ripped for, which apparently put a lot of strain on him. He dished to SCMP, “On a film like that, though, where you’re shirtless most of the time, you’ve got to maintain that discipline and regimen.” Efron later admitted on “Hot Ones,” “I realized that when I was done with that movie, I don’t ever want to be in that good of shape again. It was so hard.”
When reflecting on it again to Men’s Health in 2022, Efron took it a step further, saying, “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.” He went on to reveal that it took “powerful diuretics” and overtraining on little sleep as well as eating the same foods to achieve that look. “I don’t need to do that. I much prefer to have an extra, you know, 2 to 3 percent body fat,” he said.
What’s more is that lifestyle even impacted Efron’s mental health. He explained, “I started to develop insomnia and I fell into a pretty bad depression, for a long time. Something about that experience burned me out.” It took half a year after filming for Efron to start feeling like his old, pre-diuretics self again too. He revealed, “I had a really hard time re-centering … it messed something up.”
If you or someone you know needs help with mental health, please contact the Crisis Text Line by texting HOME to 741741, call the National Alliance on Mental Illness helpline at 1-800-950-NAMI (6264), or visit the National Institute of Mental Health website.
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