Updated On: 31 October, 2025 11:01 AM IST | Los Angeles | PTI
Actress Sharon Stone defended Sydney Sweeney against the backlash for her American Eagle jeans ad, asserting that everybody should own their unique kind of hotness

Sharon Stone and Sydney Sweeney. Pics/AFP
Hollywood actor Sharon Stone voiced her support for her Euphoria co-star Sydney Sweeney, who faced backlash for a jeans ad campaign that many on social media thought was racist. The American Eagle commercials centered on the slogan 'Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans,' a pun on 'great genes' but it drew criticism for focusing on Sweeney's white heritage. Defending Sweeney, Stone said it's fine to use one's 'hotness', to entertainment news outlet Variety on the red carpet of their Power of Women LA event on Wednesday.
'It's hard to be hot, and I think we all know that. It's really okay to use every bit of hotness you have 'right here, right now' and go for whatever that is. Everybody has their own certain kind of hotness, their own certain thing, and you're supposed to go for that. Because who are you not to be beautiful? You know, who you are isn't an accident," Stone said.