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Sydney Sweeney reveals the one reason she's never had any cosmetic surgery
Actress Sydney Sweeney is putting the brakes on speculation about her appearance.
In a new interview with Allure, the 28-year-old cleared the air, firmly stating that she’s never undergone cosmetic surgery. “Let’s debunk them all. I mean, I have never gotten work done,” Sweeney said while speaking alongside her The Housemaid co-star Amanda Seyfried. “I am so scared of needles, you have no idea.”
The Euphoria star addressed the comparisons that people make between childhood and recent photos of her, calling them misleading and unfair. “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 explained. “Everybody on social media’s insane.”
She explains appearance difference with childhood accident and lighting
Seyfried, 40, acknowledged that cosmetic procedures can be “really effective once you get older,” but Sweeney doubled down, repeating her fear of needles. She added that if she ever did change her mind, Seyfried would be the first to know.
“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,” Seyfried said. Sweeney responded, “No. Also, if I did, you guys, my face would be even.”
When Seyfried asked if her face was “uneven,” Sweeney explained she’d had a childhood wakeboarding accident that resulted in 19 stitches, causing one eyelid to open “a little more than the other.” Seyfried replied, “I still don’t see it, but there’s an art to it. You can’t just get it everywhere, like a lot of people do. You don’t need it.”
She stands by aging naturally even amid earlier pressure
Sweeney has consistently embraced authenticity in both body and mindset. Back in September 2023, she told Women’s Health, “I look up to the older version of myself. When I was 10, I looked up to the 25-year-old version of myself, and now I look up to my 50-year-old version. I hope I make the decisions she would be proud of.”
She added, “Whenever a new challenge presents itself and I’m not scared to push myself to try, that’s when I’m really proud of who I am. I know that my body can keep going — it’s more just that mental challenge to push myself through. I take that skill into skiing, into acting, into anything I do, because it’s always more mental than physical. Of course, you have to train, but it’s mind over matter at the end of the day.”
More recently, she revealed to W Magazine that she gained over 30 pounds for her role as boxer Christy Martin. “I loved it,” she said. “I came onboard to play Christy, and I had about three and a half months of training. I started eating. I weight-trained in the morning for an hour, kickboxed midday for about two hours, and then weight-trained again at night for an hour.”
“I didn’t fit in any of my clothes,” she explained. “I’m usually a size 23 in jeans, and I was wearing a size 27. My boobs got bigger. And my butt got huge. It was crazy! I was like, ‘Oh, my god.’”