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Zac Efron says his 'Baywatch' body was not sustainable, suffered from 'bad depression' during training

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Zac Efron is taking a new approach to fitness. The actor, 34, told Men’s Health magazine that he is no longer interested in maintaining the body he had in 2017 for "Baywatch." "That ‘Baywatch’ look, I don't know if that's really attainable.There's just too little water in the skin," he told the outlet. "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, two to three percent body fat." Zac Efron said his "Baywatch" body led to depression in 2017. (Ture Lillegraven for Men’s Health) Efron told Men's Health he felt depleted and struggled with "bad depression" during the intense training "Baywatch" required.

Emerging from the 2020 pandemic, the actor felt he was ready to make a change to how he approached fitness. "I started to develop insomnia," he added in the magazine's October 2022 cover story. "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." The "High School Musical" star made major adjustments to his eating and sleeping habits.

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