Celebrities Are Jumping Into The Sydney Sweeney AE Drama, And It's Getting Messier By The Minute

Posted 55 minutes agoSubscribe to BuzzFeed Daily NewsletterCaret DownCelebrities Are Jumping Into The Sydney Sweeney AE Drama, And It's Getting Messier By The MinuteLizzo, Elon Musk, Doja Cat, and more have weighed in amid the controversy.by Chelsea StewartBuzzFeed StaffFacebookPinterestLink More and more people are speaking out amid the growing discourse surrounding Sydney Sweeney's American Eagle ad - including celebrities. American Eagle / Via youtube.com In case you missed it, American Eagle released new denim ads featuring Sydney last month, using the tagline "Sydney Sweeney has great jeans." One of the promotional videos shows the blond-haired, blue-eyed actor playing on the words of the campaign as she tells the camera: "Genes are passed down from parents to offspring, often determining traits like hair color, personality, and even eye color." She then said, "My jeans are blue." American Eagle / Via youtube.com While AE described the launch as "a return to essential denim dressing," some took issue with the "great jeans" tagline, calling it a coded message promoting eugenics. @zellieimani / Via x.com ohhhh haha like GENES!! i get it! she has good jeans like she has good GENES! hahahaha like in a nazi way!! totally!!!!! https://t.co/kFsRGL1ilv- (((Ella Yurman))) (@EllaYurman) July 26, 2025 @EllaYurman / American Eagle / Via Twitter: @EllaYurman @bambied_ / Via x.com Some also criticized the hypersexualized nature of some of the videos and the apparent nod to Calvin Klein's super controversial 1980 ad with a then-15-year-old Brooke Shields.does Sydney Sweeney do anything else besides sexualize herself https://t.co/95WtHChcuc- voló ⋆.˚🌺 (@killvolo) July 26, 2025 @killvolo / American Eagle / Via Twitter: @killvolo @naledimashishi/ / Via x.com @fallnboah / Via x.com And amid the controversy, celebs started weighing in. Here's what they said. Doja Cat famously mocked Sydney's voice on TikTok: @dojacat my jeans are blee ♬ original sound - Doja Cat @dojacat / Via tiktok.com Courtney Stodden criticized AE for "pushing this hypersexualized 'All-American girl' image to sell JEANS" in a statement on Instagram. @courtneyastodden / Via Instagram: @https://www.instagram.com/courtneyastodden/?hl=en She wrote, "First of all-this isn't about Sydney. I don't know her personally and this isn't about tearing another woman down. But I do think it's important we talk about the bigger picture."She continued, "Let's be real: I have blonde hair, blue eyes and curves since I was a kid. I was sexualized by the system // powerful men before I was even old enough to understand what was happening. I've been there- marketed, minimized, misrepresented. So when I see a big-budget ad pushing this hypersexualized 'All-American girl' image to sell JEANS, all I can think is... here we go again.""Another billionaire-backed fantasy being sold to us like it's harmless nostalgia," Courtney added. "But it's not...it's rooted in racism. It's also a recycled idea of womanhood created for the silly male gaze and mass consumption.""We deserve better," Courtney said, as she also called out the original ad for its depictions of an "underage" Brooke Shields. "We are better." Lizzo responded to the ad with satire. On Thursday, she took to Instagram to share a fake meme of herself wearing a denim outfit similar to the one Sydney wore in the ad. It had the words "If the Democrats won the election" written over it as Lizzo joked in the caption, "My jeans are black..." @lizzobeeating / Via Instagram: @https://www.instagram.com/lizzobeeating/?hl=en Sen. Ted Cruz defended Sydney from the "crazy Left" on X. Reacting to a New York Post article about the backlash, Ted wrote, "Wow. Now the crazy Left has come out against beautiful women. I'm sure that will poll well...."Wow. Now the crazy Left has come out against beautiful women. I'm sure that will poll well.... https://t.co/azOMXl3KXw- Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) July 29, 2025 @tedcruz / American Eagle / Via Twitter: @tedcruz 7th Heaven actor Jeremy London tweeted, "Nobody.. And I repeat nobody... Gives a fuck about what Sydney Sweeney is wearing in a stupid commercial."Nobody... And I repeat nobody... Gives a fuck about what Sydney Sweeney is wearing in a stupid commercial- Jeremy London (@SirJeremyLondon) July 31, 2025 @SirJeremyLondon / Via Twitter: @SirJeremyLondon "We're so starved for ads with hot women we're losing it over Sydney Sweeney dressed like she's Jay Leno," added comedian Joe DeVito.

We're so starved for ads with hot women we're losing it over Sydney Sweeney dressed like she's Jay Leno- Joe DeVito (@JoeDeVitoComedy) July 30, 2025 @JoeDeVitoComedy / Via Twitter: @JoeDeVitoComedy Gabby Windey from The Bachelor and The Bachelorette called the AE videos "terrifying." @gabbywindey Hard to spell gene and Jean out loud tbh ♬ original sound - Gabby JD Vance said the left was blowing it out of proportion. "They're trying to sell, you know, sell jeans to kids in America," he explained on the Ruthless Podcast. "And the