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New York Post
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Candace Cameron Bure details journey with disordered eating, says the thoughts ‘never leave me'
Candace Cameron Bure is diving into her relationship with her body. On Tuesday, the actress, 49, dropped the latest season of her 'Candace Cameron Bure Podcast,' which focuses on 'lifelong struggles with body image, disordered eating, and mental exhaustion,' alongside guest Lisa Whittle. During the first episode of Season 11, Bure revealed when her eating disorder started. Advertisement 14 Candace Cameron Bure and Lisa Whittle on 'The Candace Cameron Bure Podcast.' Candace Cameron Bure/YouTube 'I developed an eating disorder when I was 18,' the sitcom star shared. 'It was binging and purging, like, I'm a bulimic. I still say I'm a bulimic because the thoughts, whether I'm doing that or not, never leave me. I still need the tools to say, 'No, Candace, we're not doing that.'' Bure grew up in the spotlight while starring on 'Full House' for eight seasons from 1987 to 1995. After the series ended, she moved to Montreal with her now-husband, Valeri Bure, to support his hockey career. During that time, Bure started binging and purging. Advertisement The Great American Family CCO praised her partner of 29 years for being an 'incredible support' system amid her struggles. 14 Candace Cameron Bure talks body image on Season 11 of her podcast. Candace Cameron Bure/YouTube 'I feel like a broken record,' Bure confessed. '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 [and] we're here talking about it.' The 'Ainsley McGregor Mysteries' star added, 'I'm glad we're talking about it, but I just wish, in general, that this was not a conversation that we all had to have.' Advertisement Bure admitted that she's struggled with these issues for decades. 14 Candace Cameron poses for photos while on 'Full House.' Courtesy Everett Collection 'I'm reading everything I can. I want all the information,' she confessed. 'There's certainly been amazing things and tools that have helped me along the way, but there's still nothing that has really changed my heart and soul on it. I still constantly think about it. It's really vulnerable, but so many of us feel the same feelings.' Growing up in Hollywood added an extra layer of pressure for the podcast host, who landed the ABC show before she was even a teenager. Advertisement Bure told Whittle that she had always been hyperconscious of food starting at a young age. 14 John Stamos, Dave Coulier, Jodie Sweetin, Candace Cameron, Ashley/Mary-Kate Olsen, Bob Saget of 'Full House.' ©Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett Collection 14 Candace Cameron Bure in 1990. Courtesy Everett Collection 'Everyone in my house was always on a diet,' she said. 'My mom was always on a diet. My sisters were always on a diet. I was always put on a diet.' 'It wasn't like, 'Oh, you have to lose weight.' It's just, 'We're gonna do this as preventative. We want to teach you how to be healthy and exercise,'' she recalled. 'That completely shaped the viewpoint that I had about myself, and the feelings about my body, like, 'Oh, I have to make decisions because there's a fear that I could develop an eating disorder because I'm on TV.'' She added, 'Because that's the pressure, and I don't want to be too fat compared to other actors because then producers might tell me that I need to lose weight.' 14 Candace Cameron in the 'Full House' episode 'Shape Up' in 1990. ©Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett Collection 14 Candace Cameron Bure and the Olsen twins attend the Starlight Foundation Awards Gala in 1994. Getty Images Advertisement '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.' In fact, Bure praised her parents, Barbara and Robert Cameron, for doing 'the best job in protecting me.' Tracey Gold, who starred on 'Growing Pains' with her older brother Kirk Cameron, developed an eating disorder, and she eventually sought treatment. 14 Candace Cameron Bure at the ABC Affiliate Party on June 3, 1992. Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images Advertisement At that point, Bure's parents 'were really afraid' for the young actress. '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,' Bure recalled. 'They were just fearful that I would develop an eating disorder, just because of all of the pressures.' However, it was those conversations that sparked Bure to focus on her body and her relationship with food. 14 Candace Cameron Bure at the 2002 ESPY Awards. WireImage Advertisement 14 Candace Cameron Bure attends the VSDA convention in 2004. Getty Images '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,'' the star explained. 'That kind of started young,' she admitted, adding that it continued 'through my teenage years.' In 2021, Bure, who shares kids Natasha, 26, Lev, 25, and Maksim, 23, with Val, detailed how people still come up to her and comment on her body. Advertisement 14 Candace Cameron Bure attends Cool Comedy Hot Cuisine Benefitting The Scleroderma Research Foundation in 2024. Getty Images 'It's still today the most common comment that gets spoken to me is, like, 'Wow, you're so small! Wow, you're thin!' It was always … even as a child, like, 'Wow, you're a lot smaller in person than you look on TV. You're so chubby on TV,'' she told Yahoo! Entertainment at the time. 'When you hear those things over and over again, and they become so repetitive, it can often become your identity to an extent, or it makes you perceive yourself in a way that you didn't even think you were, because other people keep speaking that into you.' Despite the outside noise, Bure said she is doing 'great.' 14 Candace Cameron Bure posts a vacation photo in July 2025. candacecbure/Instagram 'I think when you struggle with something like that, it never goes away, but you have the tools in place to know how to handle it when those temptations or urges arise … so that you don't go back to old patterns. And I'm sure that's gonna be the way it will be for the rest of my life.' However, Bure is thrilled that in today's society, people are embracing all body sizes. 'I'm so glad that the culture is different today,' she gushed. 14 Candace Cameron Bure and Val Bure. candacecbure/Instagram 14 Candace Cameron Bure and Val Bure hit the beach on vacation. candacecbure/Instagram 'One thing we've done a great job with is encouraging body confidence, body positivity and that all shapes and sizes are beautiful,' Bure continued. 'It makes raising a daughter — and sons — but a daughter, that much easier, because we have great role models and the message across the board from the media and magazines is very different than it was, you know, in '80s and '90s.'
New York Post
26-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Candace Cameron Bure reveals how she plans to get into the ‘best shape of my life' at 50
Candace Cameron Bure, who recently turned 49, plans to be in the 'best shape of my life' when she enters her 50s next year. 'That's what I'm working towards,' the Great American Family star told Fox News Digital. 'I've been filming a lot of movies, so I don't feel like I'm at my top right now because my fitness has to take a back seat while I'm filming movies, but I turned 49 this year and I have really big goals for myself just keeping active and healthy, but going into 50, I wanna be in best shape that I can possibly be in.' Advertisement Bure said she's been busy filming her Christmas movies for the network. She just wrapped a time-travel Christmas movie called 'Timeless Tidings of Joy,' and is heading into production for another one next week. She also stars in the new 'Ainsley McGregor Mysteries' series. 'So, my fitness game, once I finish this movie, at least in the gym, is gonna kick it up a notch,' she explained. 'But honestly, I feel really great.' Bure said she's been working on her fitness since she was in her early 30s, 'and I'm in a groove, and I just want to approach life and aging as someone with grace, but also enthusiasm.' 'And leaning into all the things that I can do as I get older and preparing my body so that I can continue to do those things as I older,' the actress told Fox News Digital. 'Not so much from a vanity point of view, but like, you know, I wanna be able to open the peanut butter jar when I'm 80, and I need grip strength for that. But all that comes from using your muscles and lifting weights and just basic skills.' Advertisement She joked that she's not trying to age fast, 'but it's the preparation of just being in the best shape that I can be as I get older.' 4 Candace Cameron Bure said her goal is to be in the 'best shape' of her life by the time she turns 50 next year. Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images As she's gotten older, Bure said her reasons for staying in shape have become less about 'vanity,' and more about wanting to be healthy for her family. She asks herself: 'Why is fitness so important to me? Is it because I'm trying to fit into a certain size or look a certain way? Or is it because I wanna be able to go on walks with my husband or my kids or my grandchildren and take hikes and be healthy and not have trouble getting out of a seat as I get older? And so that's what I've learned about it, that I'm so appreciative that my body can move, and I can do all the things that I can.' Advertisement She continued, 'I have so much more of a gratitude mindset for my body instead of nitpicking it like I have for many, many years.' 4 Bure said her fitness has had to take a back seat recently because she has been busy shooting movies. candacecbure/Instagram The 'Full House' alum noted that fitness doesn't always have to be in the gym. 'I do enjoy weightlifting, but it's like, 'Go out and do the things that are fun that get your body moving.' That's what fitness should be about: is body movement. So, go ride a bicycle, do handstands, do cartwheels, go skateboarding, go roller skating.' Advertisement She advised doing what you loved 'when you were young, as a kid, and what made you happy. Did you love riding your bike? Then go ride a bike. Like, you don't have to get on the stationary one. Go actually ride a bike.' Her family loves a 'good game of pickleball. It's real competitive in the Bure house.' 4 Bure said her fitness trick is to do fun activities that get herself moving. candacecbure/Instagram Aside from her many Christmas movies, Bure is also excited about her new mystery series on Great American Pure Flix. 'I love the genre so much. The cozy mysteries are so much fun,' Bure said. 'So, of course, I had a very successful franchise, the 'Aurora Teagarden Mysteries,' and I wanted to create another franchise of movies and one that felt fresh and new and new characters, new relationships,' she said of her new 'Ainsley McGregor Mysteries,' which are about a criminologist-turned-crafter. The first, 'Ainsley McGregor Mysteries: A Case for the Winemaker,' came out last year. Advertisement 'I'm so happy that the first one was really well-received, and we've got the newest Ainsley McGregor case, 'A Case for the Yarn Maker,' which is, you know, it's just another mystery,' she said. The mysteries are 'fun' and 'safe' to watch with the family, Bure added. 'Nothing gory, nothing bloody, but it's like this great whodunit. And the 'Ainsley McGregors,' as we continue to make these movies, they're just getting elevated more and more with each one, and the dialogue is sharper, the dialogue is, you know, quick-witted, they're funny, but they're smart.' 'A Case for the Winemaker' brings back the main characters from the first film, which centers on McGregor's craft shop Bless Your Arts, where she interacts with other artists and customers in the town. 'You'll be familiar with them now, but you're going to learn a little more about each of them in each installment, each movie,' she explained. 'And in this one, you're going to learn a little bit more about Mrs. Whedon. And we kind of focus the story on her and her granddaughter because this mystery has a lot of ties to who she is.' Advertisement She said the writer, Robin Dunne, also plays her brother, Sheriff Ryan McGregor, in the series. 4 Bure said she enjoy weightlifting to stay in shape. candacecbure/Instagram The series is directed by Martin Wood, 'who I've worked with for ages and directed many of the 'Aurora Teagardens' back in the day,' said Bure. 'And so we're excited. This is kind of a little dream team with the three of us producing these movies, writing them and working on them.' 'Stay glued,' she added when asked what viewers should expect from the second installment. Advertisement 'Listen to the clues, listen to the dialogue because every little word, it's a little hint as to who could have done it. But my hope is that you don't figure it out in the first 10 minutes of the movie because you've got 90 more to go, and I hope you don't figure it until the very end,' she said, adding that there are always a few red herrings. Bure also co-stars with her daughter, Natasha Bure, in the holiday film 'Timeless Tidings of Joy,' and shared some industry advice. 'What's most important for me as her mom and also someone that's been in this entertainment industry for 40 years is that, you know, I have wisdom that I'm happy and want to share with from all aspects of it,' she said. 'So, I do that often, and she's 26 years old. So she's at a place in her life where she very much respects it and asks me those questions. It's not like having a teenager when your kids think, like, you're dumb and you don't know anything. Like, we're past all of that. And so I have such a great relationship with all of my kids and I feel really blessed and honored that she comes to me and asks questions and wants advice, but she's so talented and doing such a great job, but as long as she knows I'm here, and her dad, we're here and we're for her, that's the most important thing for me.' The second installment of 'Ainsley McGregor Mysteries: A Case for the Winemaker' is now streaming on Great American Pure Flix.
