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Actress calls her post-‘Full House’ eating disorder ‘a very dangerous cycle.’ By Terri Schwartz Candace Cameron Bure Photo: David Livingston/Getty Images The troubled histories of Lindsay Lohan, Corey Haim and countless others have proven that the life of a child star is never easy, and “Full House” actress Candace Cameron Bure reveals in her new book, “Reshaping It All,” that she was no exception. The actress best known as DJ Tanner on the hit show shared for the first time that she struggled with bulimia in her youth. Cameron Bure was 11 when “Full House” hit the small screen in 1987 and went through puberty in front of a national audience. By the time the show ended its run in 1995, she was 19 and had gone through all of her life’s most awkward stages on television. After the show ended, she admitted to People magazine that she began binging and purging while adjusting to life in Canada with her new husband, NHL hockey player Valeri Bure. “It’s a very dangerous cycle that can just start to consume your life and really take over,” she said. “It wasn’t about me trying to lose weight. It was all about emotions.” During the fourth season of “Full House,” an episode focused on Cameron Bure’s character DJ dealt with the teenager going on a crash diet to try to look better for a friend’s pool party. DJ tried only eating water popsicles, going to the gym to exercise excessively and then eventually stopped eating altogether for three days and almost collapsed before her family intervened. Though DJ learned that anorexia was the wrong way to solve body-image issues, it seems as if the problem still lingered in Cameron Bure’s own psyche. Now at a healthy weight, 34-year-old Cameron Bure is the star of ABC Family’s “Make It or Break It.” She said she’s in the best shape of her life by healthy means and stays fit thanks to plenty of family exercise with her pro-athlete husband and their three children and a diet philosophy that allows everything, including her self-professed “weakness,” dessert, in moderation.

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Candace Cameron Bure Opens Up About Her Struggle With Bulimia