Months after Sydney Sweeney showed off her jeans in an American Eagle ad, the actress is finally speaking about the controversy it created — at least, sort of.

In an interview with GQ , the and actress stood by the ad while downplaying how much attention she paid to the internet back-and-forth that ensued.

“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,” Sweeney told the magazine.

In the ad, Sweeney makes a play on words between jeans (the clothing item) and genes (the genetic material), which some internet users read as having eugenicist undertones. Eugenics is a discredited idea that the human race could be improved by selectively breeding for certain traits.

“Genes

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