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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
Entertainment
Emmanuel Morilla

Sydney Sweeney Faces Backlash as SYRN Lingerie Ad Gives Child Character Cindy Lou Who a Provocative Makeover

The debate over SYRN’s festive promotion centres on its choice of fictional characters, rather than a single outfit shown in the advertisement (Credit: @sydney_sweeney/Instagram)

Sydney Sweeney has drawn online criticism for appearing as Cindy Lou Who from How the Grinch Stole Christmas in a Christmas advertisement for her lingerie brand SYRN.

The campaign places the character-inspired scenes alongside more revealing lingerie sequences. However, Sweeney wears plaid nightwear in the Cindy Lou Who scenes, not the black bra-and-garter ensemble featured elsewhere in the video.

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