diff --git a/opentelemetry-sdk/src/opentelemetry/sdk/_logs/_internal/__init__.py b/opentelemetry-sdk/src/opentelemetry/sdk/_logs/_internal/__init__.py
index 46432dc880..13fde465c3 100644
--- a/opentelemetry-sdk/src/opentelemetry/sdk/_logs/_internal/__init__.py
+++ b/opentelemetry-sdk/src/opentelemetry/sdk/_logs/_internal/__init__.py
@@ -508,20 +508,7 @@ def _translate(self, record: logging.LogRecord) -> LogRecord:
         if self.formatter:
             body = self.format(record)
         else:
-            # Since the body field has a type of 'any' and the logging module is
-            # sometimes used in such a way that objects incorrectly end up set as
-            # record.msg, in those cases we would like to set the object as the
-            # body instead of its string representation.
-            # Here we take advantage of the fact that no formatting is applied
-            # when no args are provided in order to ensure that we're only
-            # deviating from the norm where formatting wasn't going to be applied
-            # anyway.
-            # For more background, see: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/pull/4216
-            if not record.args and not isinstance(record.msg, str):
-                # no args are provided so it's *mostly* safe to use the message template as the body
-                body = record.msg
-            else:
-                body = record.getMessage()
+            body = record.getMessage()
 
         # related to https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/issues/3548
         # Severity Text = WARN as defined in https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/blob/main/specification/logs/data-model.md#displaying-severity.
diff --git a/opentelemetry-sdk/tests/logs/test_export.py b/opentelemetry-sdk/tests/logs/test_export.py
index ce31d3991f..bc333373a5 100644
--- a/opentelemetry-sdk/tests/logs/test_export.py
+++ b/opentelemetry-sdk/tests/logs/test_export.py
@@ -217,8 +217,8 @@ def test_simple_log_record_processor_different_msg_types(self):
                 "Temperature hits high 420 C in Hyderabad",
                 "CRITICAL",
             ),
-            (["list", "of", "strings"], "WARN"),
-            ({"key": "value"}, "ERROR"),
+            ("['list', 'of', 'strings']", "WARN"),
+            ("{'key': 'value'}", "ERROR"),
         ]
         emitted = [
             (item.log_record.body, item.log_record.severity_text)