Everyone needs to stop talking about Sydney Sweeney’s boobs

Sydney Sweeney has fast become one of the most famous people in the world but there’s one conversation we need to stop having about her

Sydney Sweeney's dealing with somethng she shouldn't have to

OPINION

Everyone needs to stop talking about Sydney Sweeney’s boobs. They are the least interesting thing about her.

Sweeney, 26, is having a moment.

She’s achieved career success and reached ‘it’ girl status all within about two years. She’s managed to win critical acclaim for her work in the HBO limited series Euphoria, which is like Gossip Girl on steroids, and she’s also managed to be critically panned for her role in Marvel’s hot mess of a blockbuster Madam Webb.

Sweeney is being talked about as much as that one cousin who comes to Christmas lunch with a new boyfriend and a murky timeline of when her marriage ended.

Sydney’s had a big year in her career. Picture: Instagram/SydneySweeney

She’s even been in a Marvel movie. Picture: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images

The actor’s boobs have been a massive focus in conversation. The world can’t seem to accept the concept that some women just have big boobs and it actually doesn’t say anything about them.

Sweeney’s boobs are constantly discussed, asked about, joked about, and definitely referenced because god forbid anyone forget that she’s got big boobs.

Sweeney’s played ball.

She’s spoken about how at 18, she wanted to get a boob job to make them smaller, but her mum talked her out of it, and in an interview with Glamour, she admitted she’s frustrated by the commentary around her breasts.

“Well, especially when it comes to red-carpet pics, and they’re like, ‘Sydney Sweeney displays bust,’ or ‘Sydney Sweeney wears a scandalous dress,’ I’m like, ‘I’m wearing the exact same dress someone else would be wearing! I just have tits’. And if someone else is wearing it, they’d be like, ‘Oh, so sleek and so well-mannered’,” she said.

Sydney’s an incredibly talented actor and also a producer. Picture: BackGrid

All this chatter about Sweeney’s boobs is just a giant reminder for all women about how easily our bodies define us. Sweeney’s fast becoming one of the most powerful women in Hollywood, and she’s already turned her hand to producing, but her boobs are by far the most googled and ogled part of her.

This isn’t new; women have been wrangling with this kind of commentary in their own lives for decades.

She’s become one of the most famous women in the world. Picture: Kevin Winter/Getty Images

No woman wants to be known as the girl with big boobs because, ultimately, we know that that comes with unwanted attention and being sexualised.

I have big boobs, and I’ve spent my entire working life trying to make them disappear with minimiser bras and high-neck tops, and it isn’t because I have a problem with them but because I’m terrified they’ll overshadow who I am.

I know what it feels like for people to make ridiculous assumptions about you. I know what it feels like for someone to stare at your chest, which somehow makes the rest of you feel invisible.

I know what it is like to grow up with a mum who tells you to hide them because if you don’t, people will gawk and stare, and worse still, they’ll think they have a right to.

She slays the fashion game. Picture: Amy Sussman/Getty Images

People keep saying the same thing about her. Picture: John Phillips/Getty Images

For most women, their jobs aren’t to go on red carpets, play love interests in movies, or get dressed up all the time. So therefore, we can live our lives without our chests being front and centre if we choose to. Sweeney doesn’t have that choice.

Her job is to put herself out there; she can’t turn up on a red carpet in an oversized jumper to cover up her chest. If she started looking actively dowdy, it would impact her career. Instead, because she dares to dress like an average person her age, people feel entitled to talk about her chest endlessly.

The conversation about Sweeney’s boobs is boring, uninteresting and redundant but it also tells women that the size of your breasts is the most interesting thing about you when we all know it’s actually the opposite.

Originally published as Everyone needs to stop talking about Sydney Sweeney’s boobs