Candace Cameron Bure says she's still a bulimic as she opens up about eating disorder that began when she was 18
The 49-year-old actress admitted she still considers herself to be bulimic during the most recent episode of her eponymous podcast. The episode, called, Why Can't I Feel Free in My Body?, explored body image and insecurities, with Candace talking about how being on TV at a young age affected her confidence.
Talking to her guest, author Lisa Whittle, Candace said: 'The thoughts never leave me.'
'I, too, developed an eating disorder, when I was 18,' Candace said after Lisa talked about anorexia. 'It was binging and purging. I'm a bulimic. And I still say I'm a bulimic.'
She explained that while she was not actively purging, she was still battling the disorder 'because the thoughts - whether I'm doing that or not - they never leave me.'
Candace added: 'So I still need the tools to just say, "No, Candace, we're not doing that".'
Candace spoke about how her parents' efforts to prevent her from developing bad eating habits while growing up in the spotlight backfired.
She rose to fame at just 11-years-old while starring as DJ Tanner on the late 80s sitcom Full House.
They 'did the best job in protecting me,' the former child star said of her mother and father, adding that they 'were really afraid' of her weight potentially being criticized by producers.
She went on: 'I had cheeks and I had thicker arms and I was, like, a normal 12-year-old, you know? I really was a normal 12-year-old, but I had a little bit more fat on me than other kids on TV. They were just fearful that I would develop an eating disorder, just because of all of the pressures.'
Candace said her family shifted to a health-centered lifestyle, encouraging her: 'Let's make sure we make good choices with food.'
She went on: 'Everyone in my house was always on a diet. My mom was always on a diet. My sisters were always on a diet. I was always put on a diet. But it wasn't like, "Oh, you have to lose weight".'
Although the attention to health and exercise was 'preventative,' it 'completely shaped my viewpoint that I had about myself and the feelings about my body', she said, adding: 'I'm on TV... and I don't want to be too fat compared to other actors.
'My parents never wanted a producer to come up to me and say, like, "We need your child to lose weight," so let's do everything preventative.'
Career: Candace rose to fame at just 11-years-old while starring as DJ Tanner on the 90s sitcom Full House
Consequences: Candace said her parents' efforts to prevent her from developing disordered eating habits while growing up in the spotlight backfired (pictured with Bob Saget in 1987)
Looking back, Candace said: 'That very thing just shaped the way I looked at my body, which was like, "Oh, it's not good enough the way it is right now".
'That that kind of started young,' she said, adding that it continued 'through my teenage years.'
Now, she says she feels like a 'broken record'.
'I'm 49-years-old and I'm like, why do I think about this so much? Why does it even matter so much? It's so ridiculous. And yet I'm still thinking about it,' she concluded.
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