diff --git a/source/blender/blenkernel/BKE_fcurve.hh b/source/blender/blenkernel/BKE_fcurve.hh
index 43e2f5245eb..99f529880ab 100644
--- a/source/blender/blenkernel/BKE_fcurve.hh
+++ b/source/blender/blenkernel/BKE_fcurve.hh
@@ -482,8 +482,8 @@ bool BKE_fcurve_bezt_subdivide_handles(BezTriple *bezt,
  *
  * \param new_totvert: new number of elements in the FCurve's `bezt` array.
  *
- * \note When increasing the size of the array, newly added elements are not initialized. That is
- * left to the caller.
+ * \note When increasing the size of the array, newly added elements (that is, in the
+ * [old_totvert..new_totvert) interval) are zero-initialized.
  */
 void BKE_fcurve_bezt_resize(FCurve *fcu, int new_totvert);
 
diff --git a/source/blender/blenkernel/intern/fcurve.cc b/source/blender/blenkernel/intern/fcurve.cc
index 0d9ee282c0c..454b2b8497f 100644
--- a/source/blender/blenkernel/intern/fcurve.cc
+++ b/source/blender/blenkernel/intern/fcurve.cc
@@ -1622,6 +1622,14 @@ void BKE_fcurve_bezt_resize(FCurve *fcu, const int new_totvert)
 
   fcu->bezt = static_cast<BezTriple *>(
       MEM_reallocN(fcu->bezt, new_totvert * sizeof(*(fcu->bezt))));
+
+  /* Zero out all the newly-allocated beztriples. This is necessary, as it is likely that only some
+   * of the fields will actually be updated by the caller. */
+  const int old_totvert = fcu->totvert;
+  if (new_totvert > old_totvert) {
+    memset(&fcu->bezt[old_totvert], 0, sizeof(fcu->bezt[0]) * (new_totvert - old_totvert));
+  }
+
   fcu->totvert = new_totvert;
 }