By Michaela Gordoni
When Candace Cameron Bure lost 20 pounds, she thought she’d finally get the chance to be in Seventeen Magazine, but they told her she still wasn’t good enough. That pain still lingers today.
“In the opening credits where the theme song from FULL HOUSE is playing, I’m riding an exercise bike where it would say my name because that summer I had lost like I think almost 20 pounds…between the seasons,” Bure said on a recent episode of her podcast. “So I was feeling good, I was feeling better.”
“So I went back and they go we have another meeting with Seventeen Magazine, and I’m like this is gonna be it. Now they’re gonna put me in the magazine because I’ve lost 20 pounds and I’m a little bit older.”
However, they told Bure that she still wasn’t “the right fit” for the magazine.
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“I mean, that shapes you,” Bure said. “…I’m 49 years old, and I’m still talking about it because it hurt. It hurt so badly.”
Lately, Bure has covered themes of body positivity on her podcast and opened up about her struggle with bulimia.
“I don’t want to be too fat compared to other actors,” she said on her podcast. “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.”
But that had a detrimental effect on Bure.
“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,’” she said.
At 18, she started binging and purging and says she still struggles not to think “about it.”
“It makes me sad to see everyone suddenly becoming skinny because I think it’s very triggering for a lot of people our age that grew up in the ‘80s and ’90s,” she recalled of her past. “It was the ‘Kate Moss era,’ and you’re like, ‘Oh, this is what we have to be attractive.’”
Eventually, Bure learned to see and appreciate her body how God does and turned to healthier habits, like exercise.
Now she says, “I know that God loves me for who I am and my heart,” she told Fox News Digital, “and doesn’t pay attention to the exterior and places no value in it whatsoever.”
Bure’s testimony is a message to others who may struggle with body image. It’s not what you or what others think about our bodies that matters. God made our bodies — and He views them as His wonderful creations.
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