By Michaela Gordoni
FULL HOUSE star Candace Cameron Bure opened up about her experience with an eating disorder in her latest podcast episode.
“My body story, I too developed an eating disorder when I was 18,” Bure explained. “It was binging and purging. Like, I’m a bulimic.”
“And I still say I’m a bulimic because the thoughts…whether I’m doing that or not, they never leave me. So I still need the tools to say, ‘No, Candace, we’re not doing that.’ It’s so ridiculous, and yet I’m still thinking about it.”
She added she is glad to talk about it but wishes that it wasn’t an issue that affected so many people.
She shared that as a child actress, her parents kept her and her siblings on preventive diets so that they maintained a healthy weight, but that backfired.
“That completely shaped my viewpoint that I had about myself and the feelings about my body. I’m on TV… and I don’t want to be too fat compared to other actors. 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.”
“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. That that kind of started young,” she said, and it continued, “through my teenage years.”
Her husband, Valeri Bure, has “been this incredible support” but “I feel like a broken record,” she said. “I’m 49 years old and I’m like, why do I think about this so much? Why does it even matter so much?”
Bure also opened up about her struggle with food in 2022 with Mayim Bialik.
“Food is still something that’s a comfort for me but also a battle for me,” Bure shared. “It’s like, you know, I’ve gotten into a healthy place for the most part…but I’m still very aware of it.”
“And there’s days like, ‘Oh, this is a trigger for me. And if I pick this up to eat this, this is not going to end well.’ And then I have to consciously make a good choice.”
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Exercising has helped Bure cope with her disorder. It keeps her mental state more positive.
“Obviously, the exercise has a benefit in how I feel or look in my clothes, but my motivation for exercise is not that,” she said.
It’s great that Bure can admit to her mindset now and is proactive about combatting it with healthy tools.
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