During a recent interview with Maddie Prewitt Troutt on the “Stay True Podcast,” Candace Cameron Bure reflected on growing up in Hollywood and navigating the pressures of the entertainment industry as a teen—specifically when it came to sex scenes and photo shoots.
Bure explained that she never wanted to use her body or sexuality to get ahead and often turned down roles or photo shoots that crossed her personal boundaries.
Prewitt was the runner-up on Season 24 of “The Bachelor” and is the daughter of Tonya Prewitt, founder of UniteUS, the evangelistic ministry movement responsible for seeing thousands of college students dedicating their lives to Jesus.
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“It’s been an interesting walk,” Bure told Prewitt. “However, even in my teen years, I’ve just always had a moral groundedness. I, of course, attribute that to God. But at the time, I wouldn’t recognize that from go saying it was God.”
Bure credited her moral compass to her parents but shared, “I was just honestly never the kid that wanted to do the risky thing that wanted to use my body or my sexuality to get ahead, or my morality meant more to me and my character has always meant more to me than the success of things.”
She explained, “I feel like that’s a part of inherently me. Not because I’m trying to be the righteous person, but I just genuinely was not that kid that wanted to do that.”
Due to her moral convictions, Bure shared that when she would get presented a script that went against her boundaries, it was an “easy decision to say, ‘No, I don’t want to do that because I genuinely just didn’t want to do those things.’”
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Prewitt asked Bure to share what it was like during those career “crossroad moments” of staying true to her values and convictions.
“There were definitely moments where I would get scripts and in it you’d read about, you know, the sex part of it…And I was like, ‘I’m just not doing that,’” Bure answered. “Maybe it was out of embarrassment, maybe whatever the reason, but I’m like, ‘Nope, not going on that.’ And easy to say no.”
