Sydney Sweeney issues sharp response to backlash over American Eagle jeans ad

Hollywood star Sydney Sweeney has finally addressed the firestorm of controversy that erupted earlier this year over her jeans advert for clothing firm American Eagle. The Euphoria actress, 28, sparked fierce criticism over the campaign, which launched with the tagline ‘Sydney Sweeney has great jeans’ — with many comparing the play on the word ‘jeans/genes’ to rhetoric surrounding eugenics and white supremacy. The ad saw Sweeney, posing in a pair of American Eagle