Sydney Sweeney has heard the internet chatter about her face and maybe some of her other parts, and frankly, she’s tired of it. Sitting across from her The Housemaid costar, Amanda Seyfried, in a new Allure video, the 28-year-old went straight for the rumor mill: “Let’s debunk them all. I mean, I have never gotten work done,” she said. Then she reminded everyone of one very crucial detail: “I am so scared of needles, you have no idea.”
People online love a side-by-side comparison. They’ll grab a photo of Sweeney at 12 and toss it next to one from a red carpet in 2024, then claim they’ve uncovered a conspiracy. She’s not having it. “You cannot compare a photo of me from when I was 12 to a photo of me at 26 with professional makeup and lighting! Of course I’m going to look different,” she said. Then came the line many of us have wanted to scream into the void: “Everybody on social media’s insane.”
Seyfried, who’s 40, tried to reassure her that cosmetic tweaks can be helpful someday. “When you do—,” she started before Sweeney jumped in with “I’ll call you.” Seyfried doubled down: “You gotta call me, and I’ll give you a little bit of Ativan, and you’ll be so excited. But you don’t need it yet.”
Sweeney joked that if she had work done, “my face would be even,” which confused Seyfried enough to earn a very Hollywood story. As a kid, Sweeney had a wakeboarding accident that left her needing 19 stitches around one eye. “One of her eyes opens a little more than the other,” and no, it wasn’t cosmetic. Seyfried assured her there’s a skill to good procedures. Not the “get it everywhere” approach we’ve all seen scrolling TikTok at 2am.
This isn’t a new topic for Sweeney. Back on Oct. 27, in a Variety interview, she said someone once told her to “fix my face or else I’m not going to make it.” She was 16. The advice was getting botox at sixteen. “I’ve never gotten anything done,” she repeated. “No tattoos. Nothing. I’m going to age gracefully.”
And since we’re discussing internet drama, remember the American Eagle campaign? “Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans.” Yep, that one. Critics twisted “jeans” into “genes” and suddenly her denim shoot was being compared to Nazi propaganda. Sweeney’s response was delightfully normal: “I did a jean ad. I mean, the reaction definitely was a surprise, but I love jeans. All I wear are jeans. I’m literally in jeans and a T-shirt every day of my life.”
So maybe leave Sydney Sweeney’s face—and her pants—alone.
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