‘Full House’ Star Sparks Viral Controversy with Beach Photo—What Made Her Delete It?
Ever wonder what it takes to get a photo zapped off Instagram these days? For Candace Cameron Bure, it wasn’t a glitch in the matrix but a tidal wave of body-shaming comments that sent her diving headfirst out of the digital pool. The Full House star — yes, the very same who charmed us as DJ Tanner — took to Instagram Stories to explain why a recent bathing suit snap vanished into the social media ether. At 49, Candace’s candid revelation about battling body image demons shaped by the relentless ’80s and ’90s beauty ideals ought to make us all sit up and think. Can you really swim upstream against a flood of unsolicited body critiques? Well, she’s doing her best, revealing a personal history marked by struggles with self-image and bulimia, proving that even those who’ve “been there, done that” still wrestle with the mirror’s reflection. Curious to dive deeper into Candace’s story and her ongoing fight against the tide of body negativity? LEARN MORE
Candace Cameron Bure is opening up once again about her complicated relationship with body image.
On September 6, the Full House alum explained on Instagram Stories why she removed a bathing suit photo that she had posted recently.
The 49-year-old actress told fans she chose to delete the picture due to a flood of unwanted remarks about her body.
- Candace Cameron Bure stated that she deleted a recent bathing suit photo from Instagram due to body-shaming comments.
- The Full House alum admitted she continues to struggle with body image pressures shaped in the ’80s and ’90s.
- The actress has previously spoken about her past struggles with bulimia.
The disappearance of Bure’s bathing suit photo sparked conversations online
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The conversation began when a fan asked about the missing post on Bure’s Instagram profile.
She responded candidly, saying, “Yes. I was at the beach. I was in a one-piece, not a bikini. I am soaking up the end of summer. I was having fun.”
She paired her explanation with a new snapshot of herself in a yellow maxi dress, according toPeople magazine.
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Bure stressed that the photo was not intended to spark discussion about her body. “It wasn’t about my bathing suit or my body,” she wrote.
“But the comments became flooded with people discussing my body. It wasn’t worth it. I took it down.”
According toPage Six, this was not the first time that Bure decided to take the fight to body shamers who criticize her figure.
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Back in 2018, a critic decided to comment that she looked heavier than her husband.
“All that exercising, and you still look like you weigh more than your husband. Did you change your diet?” The troll wrote.
“If a 25-inch waist looks big to you… then you’re looking through an altered lens. Be well,” Bure clapped back at the body-shamer.
Bure has a long history of body image struggles
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Bure has never hidden her difficult relationship with self-image and eatingdisorders.
In July, she toldFox News Digital that she continues to wrestle with troubling thoughts about achieving the so-called “perfect body.”
Bure stated that this mindset traces back to her formative years in the ’80s and ’90s.
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“My daughter doesn’t have the same viewpoint of body image that I did growing up,” she said, adding that cultural pressures at the time left her “all messed up.”
She expressed concern over currentbeauty trends as well.
“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.
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“It was the ‘Kate Moss era’ and you’re like, ‘Oh, this is what we have to be attractive.’”
Bure also opened up on her podcast about developingbulimia at 18. “I had a very unhealthy relationship with food that turned into bulimia,” she said.
“I kind of lost my identity in a sense, and what happened was I turned to food for comfort when my husband was traveling and when I was alone.”
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She clarified that while she no longer engages in the behavior, the mental battle continues.
“The thoughts, whether I’m doing that or not, they never leave me. So I still need the tools to just say, ‘No, Candace, we’re not doing that.’”
Bure’s parents encouraged healthy eating as a preventative measure
Bure explained that her parents encouraged healthy eating early on as apreventative measure, fearing Hollywood pressures.
“I’m on TV … 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,” she said.
These measures, however, appeared to have adversely affected Bure’s relationship with food.
In her podcast, Bure stated that she had attempted “every single diet plan since (she) was 12 years old,” including Nutrisystem, Weight Watchers and Jenny Craig.”
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