By Michaela Gordoni
Candace Cameron Bure warns about a dangerous weight-loss obsession that’s coming back around.
“It can be scary, although I feel like this younger generation has already had so much more body positivity that I hope they understand that it’s a trend,” the Teddy Bear Award® winner told Fox News Digital.
“I think of my daughter, and she just doesn’t have the same viewpoint of body image that I did growing up, and especially as a child of the ‘80s and ’90s. It’s like mine’s all messed up. I am middle-aged, and I still have all of these thoughts as to the perfect body and this and that, and it’s troubling.”
She warned that the skinny obsession is coming back and hopes that the younger generations are able to realize it’s not their appearance that’s important.
“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 said. “It was the ‘Kate Moss era’ and you’re like, ‘Oh, this is what we have to be attractive.’”
“But we know that’s not true,” she added. “And we also know just to apply it back to biblical principles, that God does not love us more or less dependent upon our weight or our body size or our shape. He doesn’t love us or value us anymore or less depending on how we look.”
Bure’s topic is important, as many Hollywood stars, like Mindy Kaling, Sharon Osbourne, Kelly Clarkson and others turn to weight loss drugs like Ozempic to lose weight.
Bure noted that God cares about what’s on the inside and judges His children by what’s in their hearts.
“No matter how the culture changes in terms of diet and what fad and what body type is in, I know that God loves me for who I am and my heart and doesn’t pay attention to the exterior and places no value in it whatsoever,” she said.
It’s important to ask “why” when you think about the reason people want to lose weight.
“For me, I have to come down to the ‘Why do I want to take care of myself the way that I do?’ I want to be healthy,” Bure said. “I want to enjoy my later years as I age. I want to enjoy them to the fullest.”
That’s why she takes care of herself — it’s not for looks or to please others.
“You see so much of Hollywood getting skinny all of a sudden, and there’s a little place of jealousy as a woman that it’s like, ‘Oh, this is the easy way out.’ And yet I know that’s not true for everybody. And I really had to just take a step back and say, ‘Why am I jealous? Why am I feeling this way?’”
Earlier this year, Bure had a dream about her body after reading Numbers 22. Her body spoke to her, asking her why she abused it.
“And it was like this amazing revelation in my life,” she continued. “And the weirdest story out of the Bible, that God spoke to me about how mean I’ve been to my body. I never saw it that way — it’s this beautiful, amazing thing that God gave me.”
Weight loss drugs are gaining a lot of attention these days, but they come with a cost. Sharon Osbourne reported she felt constant nausea and never felt hungry.
It’s “why I keep saying you’ve got to keep this stuff away from younger people because they will go berserk on it and it’s not right,” she said.
The New York Post reported many stars are suffering from “Ozempic face” and “Ozempic feet” — side effects that cause sunken features and drooping skin.
Bure is right. In a world that will chew you up and spit you out over your looks — skinny or not — it’s what’s inside that counts.
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