Candace Cameron Bure Says She Deleted a Photo Because of Online Body Shamers

Candace Cameron Bure is speaking out about her body image.

On Saturday, Sept. 6, the Full House alum, 49, revealed on her Instagram Stories why she chose to delete a photo of herself wearing a bathing suit that was posted on her profile page the day before.

Having been prompted by a fan’s question about the photo’s disappearance, Bure explained that she removed it because people were “discussing my body.”

“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 wrote, alongside a photo of herself wearing a butter yellow maxi dress.

“It wasn’t about my bathing suit or my body,” she continued. “But the comments became flooded with people discussing my body.

“It wasn’t worth it. I took it down,” Bure added.

The mother-of-three has previously spoken candidly about her body image issues.

While appearing on Fox News Digital in July, Bure admitted that she has “troubling” thoughts about having the “perfect body,” which she attributed to growing up in the ‘80s.

“My daughter 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,” the Christian influencer and outspoken conservative said.

“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. It was the ‘Kate Moss era’ and you’re like, ‘Oh, this is what we have to be attractive,’ ” she added.

On the July 22 episode of The Candace Cameron Bure Podcast, Bure also spoke about her emotional battle with bulimia. “I developed an eating disorder when I was 18,” she said. “It was binging and purging. I’m a bulimic. And I still say I’m a bulimic.”

The podcaster clarified that she doesn’t engage in bulimic behavior, but she still battles with the mental impact of the disorder. “Because 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,’ ” she explained.

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Bure said that her parents focused on healthy eating as a protective method. “But that completely shaped my viewpoint that I had about myself and the feelings about my body,” she said.

“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,” Bure continued.

Bure said her husband Valeri Bure has “been this incredible support,” adding, “I feel like a broken record. I’m 49 years old … and yet I’m still thinking about it.”

If you or someone you know is struggling with an eating disorder, The Alliance for Eating Disorders provides a fully-staffed helpline at 1-866-662-1235, as well as free, therapist-led support groups.