News Corp National Education Editor Susie O’Brien says people would be labelling Sydney Sweeney’s controversial advertisement as “empowering” if she were “two or three times the size”. “If Sydney Sweeney didn’t look the way she looked, no one would be caring,” Ms O'Brien told News24 host Chris Kenny. “She looks amazing, it’s a bit hard not to look, and this is coming from a red-blooded, heterosexual woman.”