Candace Cameron Bure talks eating disorders, Hollywood's beauty standards, and faith



Staying levelheaded despite overwhelming pressure to be perfect as a Hollywood starlet is no easy feat — but Candace Cameron Bure has done so with grace.

The former "Full House" star has been very transparent about the eating disorder she’s suffered from as she’s tried to keep up with Hollywood standards.

“The pressure is so ingrained,” Bure tells Allie Beth Stuckey. “I’ve been very public and open about having an eating disorder, which has been really good for the last, probably, you know, 20 years.”

However, she’s noticed that with certain crazes, like the recent trend of celebrities using Ozempic to drop weight fast, she still feels that pressure.

“These are, like, the crazy thoughts that still go through my head, and they’re so dumb and they’re so unrealistic and I hate that I have them, but the fact is I do,” Bure says.

One of the ways she battles the thoughts is sharing them with others as well as maintaining a fitness regimen.

“The more I just share it and am open about it, it frees me from it because I can hear myself say it out loud and realize, like, this is not what life is all about,” she tells Stuckey, adding, “I do love fitness for the reasons that obviously I want my body to feel strong and healthy, but it frees my mind.”

While sharing and exercise have been huge in overcoming her eating disorder, one of the other ways Bure stays grounded is through her relationship with God.

“My prayer life is pretty strong, my conversations with him are very strong,” Bure says. “Really, it’s a battle of the mind, a lot of disordered eating is, and so if I pull the Holy Spirit into my mind, and I’m constantly praying and asking God to renew my mind, it helps.”

Stuckey is no stranger to eating disorders herself, telling Bure that she suffered from one in college.

“I was enslaved to that, and that’s what I think about,” Stuckey says, adding, “I’m like, ‘Do you want to be enslaved to that again? Do you want to be controlled by that again?’”


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Actress shares the ‘tools’ she uses to navigate Hollywood’s impossible beauty standards



Candace Cameron Bure, best known for playing D.J. Tanner on ABC’s “Full House,” is no stranger to the crushing pressure of Hollywood’s impossible and toxic beauty standards.

Bure is now back in the entertainment industry, and while she loves her “fitness routine” and “being a healthy eater,” she knows where to draw the line.

“There are unrealistic and unhealthy beauty standards in the entertainment industry that I'm sure you had to battle against,” says Allie Beth Stuckey.

“I still do,” Bure admits, citing “the Ozempic craze” as one area she’s currently struggling with.

“I’m like, ‘Should I go on Ozempic?’ … I’m not going to go on Ozempic, but these are the things that cross my mind because the standard is so high and I’m in front of the camera all day,” she continues, adding that “a lot of the pressure comes from [herself].”

Bure is open about her former eating disorder, and while she’s had control over it for “20 years,” she still has to “battle it all the time.”

“I have tools in place that help me,” she says.

Before making a decision, “I'm going to remind myself how I'm going to feel, I'm going to remind myself of every physicality” that might happen — “whether my stomach’s going to feel bloated, whether my eyes and face are going to hurt.”

“I was bulimic for a long time, so I remind myself of the things that feel awful and the consequences of it,” she says, adding that this method “snaps [her] back to reality.”

As for exercise, Bure focuses on “[feeling] strong and healthy,” allowing “all of those endorphins” to help “clear [her] mind.”

“My fitness journey is really for my emotional health,” she says.

She also looks to her Christian faith to guide her through those internal battles.

“I have an ongoing dialogue with God, and so, my prayer life is pretty strong,” she tells Allie. “If I pull the Holy Spirit into my mind and I'm constantly praying and asking God to renew my mind, it helps.”

To hear about how Candace handles the pressure to look perfect on social media and the inevitability of aging, watch the clip below.


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