The 49-year-old actress explained that she posted the swimsuit photo because she was enjoying the final days of summer. However, many of the people who commented on the photo were more concerned with her body than anything else.
Candace said she deleted the photo because ‘it wasn’t worth it.’
On Saturday, September 6, she confirmed that she did delete her post. “Yes,” Candace wrote back. “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. It wasn’t about my bathing suit or my body.”
The actress previously opened up about her experience with an eating disorder.
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In July 2025, Candace revealed that she has struggled with bulimia. Of course, dealing with body shamers is never pleasant. But given Candace’s history of dealing with negative body image and disordered eating, it makes sense that seeing people pick apart her body was especially difficult for her.
“I, too, developed an eating disorder, when I was 18,” she said on her podcast, The Candace Cameron Bure Podcast . “It was binging and purging. I’m a bulimic.”
She clarified that she still considers herself bulimic 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’s also spoken up about the Ozempic craze.
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After struggling with negative body image and disordered eating for years, Candace was happy that things were starting to change, thanks to the body positivity movement. Now, she’s definitely not thrilled to see that skinny seems to be trending again. After witnessing her daughter grow up with “so much more body positivity,” Candace finds it “triggering” and “scary” that so many people are “suddenly becoming skinny” again.
“I hope that [young people] do understand that it’s a trend,” Candace told Fox News Digital. “But yeah, it does freak me out. 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.’”
