Paparazzi To Sydney Sweeney's Family "If You Tell Her to Just Come Outside in a Bikini, I’ll Take Pictures and Then I’ll Leave You Alone"

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Paparazzi are some of the strangest/worst people in the world. Nearly every interaction you see on TMZ or whoever in that field makes you want to crawl out of your own skin. The weirdest, most uncomfortable conversations you can think of just so these guys muster up some interaction with a celebrity. Earlier this year while Gerrit Cole was in LA to see a doctor about his elbow, he was met at the airport by this weirdo who wouldn't let him be. I imagine throughout this whole clip Cole was day-dreaming about dismembering this dickhead. 

While I'm not here to tell you to feel bad for people with fame, it feels reasonable to allow them to do something like order at a McDonald's drive thru without having this shit happen. 

Then there's the encounters that we don't see on video. Paparazzi hiding in cars, trees, bushes, next door houses, sewer drains, you name it just so they can get a candid photo of someone in their private life. This quick story from Sydney Sweeney is nuts. 

(Glamour) Lately photographers have started going to extreme measures because of it. They recently showed up at Sweeney’s new home in Florida and started yelling at her family who were outside. “They said, ‘If you tell her to just come outside in a bikini, I’ll take pictures and then I’ll leave you alone,’” she says. On social media, people speculated that she had called the paparazzi herself, something she vehemently denies. “Why would I call the paparazzi to take pictures of me at my own house when my baby cousins and family are there and I’m in my backyard? Why would I ever want that? I have pictures of these guys in kayaks hiding in bushes in the ocean. They got there at 8 a.m. and wouldn’t leave until 4 p.m. I should be able to be in my home and feel comfortable and safe.”

We've got paparazzi people threaten family members like we're negotiating with terrorists in 24. For a bikini picture? What is happening? 

Here's what I don't get. Sydney Sweeney goes out of her way to make sure we see as much of her body as humanly possible. I'm pretty sure it's legally required in the show 'Euphoria' to show her naked every 15 minutes. Her recent movie with Glenn Powell she's in a bikini or less the whole time. 

This interview I pulled the story from had pictures of her showing off her prized possessions with no regard for human life. 

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She just did this commercial in a bath tub for some brand called Dr. Squatch. 

And every other photoshoot she's ever done. She clearly has no issue showing off her gifts to the world. We've seen more of her than her fiancé has at this point.  

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So my question here is, what good does a bikini picture at her home do for you when you can find pictures of her with just one quick search on the internet? You almost accidentally run into them these days because they're so out there. You really need to be camped outside her house for an entire work day and threaten her family? Maybe I'm missing the point, but how much could a candid bikini shot of Sydney Sweeney get you these days? Imagine thinking saying the sentence, ‘If you tell her to just come outside in a bikini, I’ll take pictures and then I’ll leave you alone," is the way to go about a situation. Shit is all so weird to me and now we're threatening her family members? Burn that industry all the way to the ground.