How Sydney Really Feels About Ad Backlash

Sydney Sweeney isn’t letting the controversy from her American Eagle ad get her down. After the Euphoria star, 27, sparked a debate about race and beauty standards with a July 23 campaign featuring the tagline “Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans,” a source tells Us she “thinks this whole thing has been blown out of proportion.”

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Critics were quick to zero in on the ad’s play on the word “genes,” which some saw as a nod to eugenics, a discredited theory that humans can be improved through selective breeding. However, a second insider insists, “It was never meant to be negative,” adding that Sweene