Candace Cameron Bure is opening up about why she deleted a swimsuit snap after fans noticed it vanished from her feed.
The Full House favorite, 49, had shared the shot while ‘soaking up the end of summer” — but it didn’t take long before the photo sparked a wave of comments that left her feeling it just wasn’t worth the headache.
During an Instagram Q&A over the weekend, one follower asked if she had deleted the picture.
Bure confirmed she had, explaining the since-scrubbed photo showed her in a one-piece suit, ‘not a bikini,’ and was meant to be a lighthearted post.
‘It wasn’t about the bathing suit or my body,’ she explained.
‘But the comments became flooded with people discussing my body. It wasn’t worth it. I took it down.’
Candace Cameron Bure is opening up about why she deleted a swimsuit snap after fans noticed it vanished from her feed
During an Instagram Q&A over the weekend, one follower asked if she had deleted the picture
The actress has long been candid about her struggles with body image.
‘I developed an eating disorder when I was 18,’ Cameron Bure said on a July episode of her eponymous podcast.
‘It was binging and purging, like, I’m a bulimic. I still say I’m a bulimic because the thoughts, whether I’m doing that or not, never leave me. I still need the tools to say, ‘No, Candace, we’re not doing that.’”
She admitted she’d tried ‘every single diet plan since [she] was 12 years old,’ from Nutrisystem to Jenny Craig, and said her history of eating disorders has made maintaining a healthy relationship with food an ongoing battle.
‘I had a very unhealthy relationship with food that turned into bulimia,’ she also told Entertainment Tonight in 2016, admitting she turned to food for comfort when her husband was away.
In her 2010 memoir Reshaping It All, she revealed her battle with bulimia.
The Instagram wipe comes after Candace dropped a bombshell in July about how her marriage nearly ended in divorce.
The actress opened up about once going through a particularly ‘rough season’ with her husband Valeri Bure after 30 years of marriage.
Bure confirmed she had removed the pic, explaining the since-scrubbed photo showed her in a one-piece suit, ‘not a bikini,’ and was meant to be a lighthearted post; (seen in 2021)
‘But the comments became flooded with people discussing my body. It wasn’t worth it. I took it down’; (seen in 2021)
She admitted that she and her husband almost separated and nearly went through with ending their marriage back in 2020, but their son guided them towards reconciliation.
On the July episode of The Candace Cameron Bure Podcast, she recalled: ‘Val and I went through a really, really rough season in our marriage.’
She said at one point, they both had thoughts about splitting up until their kids stepped in.
‘It was going south quickly. And we were like, “I don’t know, I don’t think … we’re gonna make it through.’
The pair have been married since 1996 and are parents to three adult children: Natasha, 26, Lev, 25, and Maksim, 23.
She recalled how their middle child, their eldest son Lev — who was also recording the podcast with her and their pastor Jonathan ‘JP’ Pokluda — stepped in and guided them through the rough patch with religion.
‘That was, like, the pivotal moment,’ she continued. ‘It really changed for us after that talk. It’s a whole different scenario when your kids sit you down to talk and say, “Are you being as mature as you can be?”‘
She added: ‘I’m so grateful to Lev, and Maks and Natasha. They were so supportive of everything.’
The Instagram wipe comes after Candace dropped a bombshell in July about how her 30-year marriage to Valeri Bure nearly ended in divorce
The Fuller House alum had previously opened up about how the COVID-19 pandemic affected her marriage.
‘All the things that we have avoided for years talking about, they all surfaced and they were in our face,’ she admitted during an interview with Yahoo! Lifestyle in March 2021.
‘And it was unavoidable to actually have these discussions with one another and work through the real deal crap.’
She first sparked a romance with the former NFL hockey player after they met through her Full House co-star Dave Coulier before getting engaged less than a year later.
On June 22, she shared a gushing tribute dedicated to her partner on Instagram.
’31 years ago, we went on our first official date at his practice rink in Fredericton, New Brunswick. @dcoulier introduced us at a charity hockey game in Los Angeles 4 months earlier,’ she wrote.
’30 years ago on June 20th, we got engaged in Paris. 29 years ago today, June 22nd, we got married. We grew a beautiful family. Happy anniversary to my love and best friend forever. And this was the song for our first dance.’
