However, she continued, “There were times of like…you look at the other people that are your age, and you see what they’re doing and you see the success that they’re having—Melissa Joan Hart who was on ‘Sabrina,’ or the people from ‘Saved by the Bell’ or ‘Who’s the Boss.’”
Seeing her peers taking on more mature, sex-driven roles and publicity made Bure question her boundaries. “You’re like, ‘Oh, well, they’re posing in that magazine or taking sexier pictures,'” she said. “‘Maybe it’s not Playboy, but it’s kind of sexier. Is that something I should do?’ And, ‘Wow, they’re getting a lot of attention. Is that how I’m supposed to grow up in front of America? Is that how I’m supposed to transition into an adult?’”
Bure believes that is why, when younger stars turn 18, the world witnesses them transitioning into that moment where they want to “prove that they are older now” because they don’t want to be “seen as a child” actor anymore. “That’s where those big important decisions come in,” she said.
“If I’m being completely honest, there would be times when I would be a little bit jealous because I’m like, well, could I—am I pretty enough to be in that magazine? Do people look at me that way?” said Bure. “Do I want them to look at me in a sexier way than being a kid? And you kind of wrestle with those because you want to grow up and you want to be an adult.”
When Bure was faced with those decisions, she shared that she heard her mom and dad in her conscience, and that kept her from disregarding her values. “It was probably God too,” Bure said. “And I’m like, but I would never want my parents to see me this way. And I would think about having kids going, I don’t think I would want my kids to see me that way.”
“So, thinking ahead through some of those answers really helped me make those decisions,” she added. “And I’ve always carried great conviction in my heart, and I know that has always come from God. But again, didn’t recognize it at that age, at that time, until I really started walking with God in my 20s.”
Bure concluded by telling Prewitt that it is important to listen to your conscience. “It might sound like mom and dad, it might sound like a teacher, it might sound like a coach, it’s just someone in your life,” she said, “but there’s a reason you keep hearing it.”
