Candace Cameron Bure shared an emotional story about how God revealed a powerful truth to her through a strange Bible narrative and brought her greater freedom when it comes to her body image. Bure shared her experience with her daughter, Natasha Bure, and podcaster Allie Schnacky in a recent episode of the “The Candace Cameron Bure Podcast.”
During an episode titled “I Want to Love My Body BUT…Sometimes It’s Hard,” the three women explored their upbringings and the challenges they have faced with regard to how they see their bodies. At the end of the conversation, Bure said she wanted to tell Natasha and Schnacky about a time when God used a dream and the biblical account of Balaam’s donkey in Numbers 22 to reveal a truth about how Bure related to her body.
“I wake up from this dream one day, one morning, and God just vividly showed me that I’ve been like Balaam, and I’ve whipped my body,” said Bure through tears. “I’ve spoken to it so harshly, so mean: ‘What are you doing? Why do you look this way? Why are you fat?…Why can’t you be like every other body?’”
I was so mean to myself… and looking back, it breaks my heart.💔 Learning to speak with kindness to my body has been a journey, and I know I’m not alone in this. To those who relate — I hope you can feel me giving you the biggest virtual hug right now. And I hope you’ll join me… pic.twitter.com/H3FkxGxtJG
— Candace Cameron Bure (@candacecbure) April 8, 2025
Candace Cameron Bure Tackles the ‘Big Topic’ of Body Image
Candace Cameron Bure is an actor and producer and chief creative officer with Great American Media, as well as a Christian who is vocal about her faith. She sat down with Natasha and Schnacky for a podcast series focusing on the different pressures women face.
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The subject of body image is “a pretty big topic that I think a lot of us women struggle with,” said Bure. “I’m always so happy for the people that don’t struggle with this, and I know a lot of guys struggle with it too. But I feel like more people struggle with this than not.”
All three women agreed that their negative thoughts about their bodies began at least as early as middle school, if not elementary school. “That actually makes me really sad to say because I don’t even understand how a kid could be insecure about their body,” said Schnacky.
“I have very vivid memories of being in fifth grade and sixth grade and [I] felt so bad about my body,” Bure said. “And not that anyone even said anything bad about my body, but, like, I hated my arms. I’ve always had this love/hate relationship with my arms my entire life.”
Natasha shared, “I felt so insecure.” She remembers watching “America’s Next Top Model” and looking at her body in the mirror while realizing she would never be able to be on that show.
Bure pointed out that one way culture has changed since the 90s when she was growing up was that, then, it was trendy for supermodels to be extremely tall and thin.
In fact, one style that emerged during this time was actually called “heroin chic.”
