Kevin Bacon No Longer Looks Like This With His Bloated Face

Kevin Bacon posted a shocking selfie on his Twitter page where he looked like he gained a few pounds and it's not because he gained weight!

Last Monday, the 56-year-old star tweeted a selfie picture captioned, "Greetings from the UK," on his Twitter account. The look posted on the social media platform pictured the actor with a double chin and rounded cheeks, evoking playful commentaries from his more than 500,000 followers.

One commenter said, "You need to stay off the bacon and maybe be Kevin salad for a change."

Another fan wrote, "The[re] has to be a good Bacon/Pig/Fat joke here. But in case this isn't prosthetic, I'm not going to say it."

The actor reportedly used makeup and prosthetics to achieve his fuller and rounder face, MSN reports. The reason for this is still unclear but the Golden Globe winner is no stranger to funny and dramatic transformations for an advert.

UK Daily Mail suggests that it may be for a new ad campaign he is doing. Bacon is reportedly the face of EE, a UK mobile and television service company, where his earlier advertisements parodied the concept of Six Degrees Of Kevin Bacon - a game based on "six degrees of separation" where players connect any other person to the actor.

Bacon amiably responded to this pop culture game and told London Evening Standard, "What's amazing to me is that the whole Six Degrees Of Kevin Bacon still hangs in there as a concept. For whatever reason, it's become part of popular culture, I suppose. Making fun of it is good."

UK Daily Mail also reported that the actor's commercial advert in February, promoting the brand's new product, was filled with innuendo and funny anecdotes.

The Hollywood celebrity known for his lean frame commissioned a disguise with prosthesis a few years ago which he wore to a shopping center in LA. He admitted that he did not like not being famous.

"I just wanted to see what it would be like to try not being famous. And, actually, I didn't like it very much," he admits, with admirable honesty. "People didn't bother me but they also ignored me," he recalled and told the Evening Standard. "No one was nice to me - they looked right through me, and pushed in front of me at the tills. It was a great education."

No explanation has been issued by the actor about the disguise hullabaloo that made waves in the Twittersphere. Bacon and his wife, actress Kyra Sedgwick, have been in the UK in the past few weeks.