By Michaela Gordoni
FULL HOUSE star Candace Cameron Bure recently opened up all about her marriage, beliefs and turning 50 next year.
“Every decade of my life has been better and better,” she told Us. “You become more confident in who you are.”
The Teddy Bear Award® winner learns from her mistakes and sees the value in them.
“There’s nothing I need to clear up,” Cameron Bure says about her beliefs and opinions. “There really isn’t. I’m just living true to me.”
With Christmas coming up, she says Jesus is the reason for the season.
It’s “why we read the Bible the morning of Christmas, to remind ourselves what we’re actually celebrating — the birth of Jesus — and that we give gifts because Jesus gave us the gift of salvation,” Bure said. “Those are beautiful things.”
Her faith also comes through in her movies for Great American Family.
“Sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ truly is the most important thing in my life, and I get to share this in creative ways as a woman of faith in the entertainment industry,” she said.
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“I feel like these movies have resonated so much. The channel has really leaned into that market and the people who are yearning for the name Jesus to be in Christmas movies — and I think that Great American will continue to lean even further into those types of stories,” she added.
She says she cannot “separate” Jesus from her job as an entertainer. For her to live authentically, she has to allow him into everything she does.
“Not everyone’s going to like what I have to say or agree with it or think I’m archaic or not on the right side of history,” she said. “And I don’t care, I want to be on God’s side of history, so everyone else’s opinions can change every few years, every decade, whatever.”
“But I know that God’s word never changes, therefore, I don’t want to change. If God doesn’t, I don’t want to,” she told Us.
She’s lost contracts over her beliefs, but she’s never lost her fighting spirit.
“I have an audience of one, and that’s God. I’m going to face a holy God. When I die, I’m not going to stand before that person in the comments who doesn’t like me, so I’m more worried about my eternal life,” she said.
“For as much hate as I get, I have felt so much love within the community of people that are more conservative in Hollywood. People are speaking up a whole lot more than they have in the past. I would like to hope that it becomes less divisive, that we can all exist together and it’s OK to have differing opinions,” she explained. “We can all still sit at the table together and have respect.”
Bure turns 50 in April, and while she looks forward to the life change, she isn’t eager for her body to change.
“I’m so excited to turn 50! Every woman that I’ve talked to in their 50s has said it keeps getting better, aside from the menopause part. I’m not looking forward to that,” she said.
She also enjoys a wonderful marriage with her husband, Val Bure.
“I love my husband so much,” Bure gushed. “We are enjoying each other so incredibly much. Because anyone knows that when you’ve had kids and you go through that walk or that journey together, which can be great, but then it’s basically the two of you again, once your kids are all adults, it’s like we started dating again, and it’s been so beautiful.”
Bure’s new Christmas movie, ANOTHER SWEET CHRISTMAS, just went to theaters early this month. She shared a sneak peek of behind the scenes on Tuesday:
Bure is currently filming the third HOME SWEET CHRISTMAS MOVIE in Europe.
“I’ve never filmed in Europe before, so it is very exciting,” Bure said. “Sam and Sophie will take a European Christmas vacation to celebrate their first anniversary. They’ll stroll through the picturesque Christmas markets, castles and take in the beauty of Christmas in a way that only Europe has to offer.”
The movie is releasing in theaters in the winter of next year.
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