Sydney Sweeney’s new American Eagle ad, featuring the line “great jeans,” sparked debate over beauty standards and a pun critics say nods to eugenics, the discredited theory of selective human breeding.

Sydney Sweeney's American Eagle campaign is also drawing comparisons to Brooke Shields' controversial Calvin Klein ad from 1980. Shields' age (she was 15 at the time) ruffled feathers due to the commercial's provocative tagline: "You want to know what comes between me and my Calvins? Nothing."

As controversy continues to mount around an American Eagle jeans ad starring actress Sydney Sweeney, Ted Cruz is wading into the debate.