Candace Cameron Bure is reflecting on growing up in front of the camera – including the pressure to look a certain way onscreen. The Full House alum, 48, opened up about how the crew of the beloved family sitcom applauded her 20-pound weight loss in between seasons when she was a teen during the Monday, August 12, episode of the “ Pod Meets World ” podcast. Bure, who played eldest daughter D.
J. Tanner, shared her story after host Danielle Fishel asked if she ever had an episode written about her weight, like Fishel, 43, and her Boy Meets World costar Will Friedle did. “I had lost, like, 20 pounds from the end of one season to another,” Bure began.
“I came in losing 20 pounds, but they thought it was so great and they were like, ‘Oh, on the opening titles, why don’t we have you on an exercise bike, just to promote that.’ And looking back, I don’t think that was bad. I really put a lot of hard work and effort into losing 20 pounds.
” She continued, “But the season before I had that episode where it was like, Kimmy [played by Andrea Barber ] and I were going to a pool party and I didn’t want to put a bathing suit on, so I did a crash diet to try to lose weight in a week so I wouldn’t feel bad about myself in a bathing suit, and then passed out at the gym. And those are things that many of us struggle with. But yeah, you know, you play it out on television and sometimes it’s like.
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” Bure went on to reveal that the writers had asked her and her p.