{"id":2125208,"date":"2025-10-30T17:43:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T17:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2125208"},"modified":"2025-10-30T17:43:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T17:43:31","slug":"sharon-stone-defends-sydney-sweeney-after-american-eagle-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/sharon-stone-defends-sydney-sweeney-after-american-eagle-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharon Stone defends Sydney Sweeney after American Eagle controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Sharon Stone is on Team Sydney Sweeney following the latter\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2025\/07\/28\/celebrity-news\/sydney-sweeneys-american-eagle-good-jeans-ad-accused-of-being-nazi-propaganda\/\">controversial American Eagle ad<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s OK to use what mama gave ya. It\u2019s really fine. You know, it\u2019s hard to be hot, and I think we all know that,\u201d Stone, 67, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/tv\/news\/sharon-stone-defends-sydney-sweeney-jeans-ad-controversy-1236565272\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said on the red carpet<\/a> at Variety\u2019s Power of Women LA event on Wednesday, where Sweeney, 28, was recognized as one of this year\u2019s honorees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd it\u2019s really OK to use every bit of hotness you have right here, right now, and go for whatever that is.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Sharon Stone is on Team Sydney Sweeney following the latter\u2019s controversial American Eagle ad. <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/sharonstone<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>\u201cIt\u2019s OK to use what mama gave ya. It\u2019s really fine. You know, it\u2019s hard to be hot,\u201d Stone said on the red carpet at Variety\u2019s Power of Women LA event on Wednesday. <span class=\"credit\">Chelsea Lauren\/Shutterstock<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Stone \u2014 a prominent sex symbol in the \u201990s \u2014 went on, \u201cBecause everybody has their own certain kind of hotness, their own certain thing, and you\u2019re supposed to go for that because who are you not to be beautiful, you know? Who you are isn\u2019t an accident.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the \u201cBasic Instinct\u201d star, Sweeney \u2014 who became a sex symbol after catapulting to fame on \u201cEuphoria\u201d \u2014 \u201cunderstands herself\u201d and is \u201ccomfortable,\u201d \u201ccentered and safe within herself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, the blond-haired, blue-eyed actress faced backlash for an AE denim campaign that many felt\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2025\/09\/04\/celebrity-news\/sydney-sweeney-refuses-to-discuss-controversial-american-eagle-ad-at-tiff\/\">promoted eugenics and \u201cNazi propaganda\u201d<\/a>\u00a0by using a play on the words \u201cgenes\u201d and \u201cjeans.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>\u201cAnd it\u2019s really OK to use every bit of hotness you have right here, right now, and go for whatever that is,\u201d she added. <span class=\"credit\">WireImage<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>According to Stone, Sweeney \u2014 a fellow sex symbol \u2014 \u201cunderstands herself\u201d and is \u201ccomfortable,\u201d \u201ccentered and safe within herself.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/sharonstone<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI had a really interesting talk with her one day at work,\u201d Stone told Variety, referring to her role on \u201cEuphoria\u201d Season 3, which is currently in production.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was talking to her about the reaction that happened to her jean campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stone recalled <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2025\/10\/01\/celebrity-news\/renowned-conservationist-jane-goodall-dead-at-91\/\">late conservationist Jane Goodall<\/a> appearing on the cover of Life magazine for her work with gorillas.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Earlier this year, the blond-haired, blue-eyed actress faced backlash for an AE denim campaign that many felt\u00a0promoted eugenics and \u201cNazi propaganda\u201d\u00a0by using a play on the words \u201cgenes\u201d and \u201cjeans.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>\u201cI\u2019m sure I made a billion dollars for the jean company, and I\u2019m good with that,\u201d Sweeney allegedly told Stone. <span class=\"credit\">American Eagle<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cShe was in her safari shorts and shirt, sitting with one of the animals that she was working with,\u201d Stone told Sweeney.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd other scientists said, \u2018She only got he cover of Life magazine because she had good legs.\u2019 And Jane said, \u2018Well, if I did then that helped me get more money for my research.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Stone, Sweeney responded, \u201cYeah, I\u2019m sure I <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2025\/09\/04\/style\/american-eagles-sydney-sweeney-campaign-is-its-most-successful-yet\/\">made a billion dollars for the jean company<\/a>, and I\u2019m good with that because, you know what, I\u2019ll get another job.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source pagesix.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sharon Stone is on Team Sydney Sweeney following the latter\u2019s controversial American Eagle ad. \u201cIt\u2019s OK to use what mama gave ya. It\u2019s really fine. You know, it\u2019s hard to be hot, and I think we all know that,\u201d Stone, 67, said on the red carpet at Variety\u2019s Power of Women LA event on Wednesday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2125209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[24003,385070,381151,30252,22209,309386],"class_list":["post-2125208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-news","tag-jane-goodall","tag-nazis","tag-scandals","tag-sharon-stone","tag-sydney-sweeney"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Sharon-Stone-defends-Sydney-Sweeney-after-American-Eagle-controversy.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2125208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2125210,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125208\/revisions\/2125210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2125209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2125208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2125208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2125208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}