Candace Cameron Bure on ‘Awkward’ ‘Full House’ Episode on DJ’s Weight

Candace Cameron Bure has opened up about how she felt whereas filming the Full Home episode centered round her character D.J. Tanner’s weight insecurities

Throughout her look on Boy Meets World rewatch podcast Pod Meets World, Bure detailed how unusual it felt to develop up on a sitcom, with viewers fixated on your look. She admitted that it was hardest at 15 and 16 years outdated.

“I was always the chubby-cheeked girl and a lot of people loved that I was,” she stated. “And I can look back and go like, I was just a normal, average girl. And yet you meet people and they’re like, ‘You’re so much thinner in person.’” This made the Full Home alum query whether or not this was “all people see.”

“Of course, as a teenager, you feel that insecurity whether you’re on television or not,” she identified. “It gets magnified when you are, so those ages were a little bit more awkward for me.” Bure then shared that she all the time thinks about going again in time and hugging her teenage self and inform her, “Don’t listen to anyone.”

When requested by host Danielle Fishel if Bure ever had an episode of Full Home written about her weight like Fishel did on Boy Meets World, Bure recalled the season 4 episode, “Shape Up,” the place D.J. didn’t need to put a showering go well with on for a pool get together, so she went on a crash weight-reduction plan for per week to shed extra pounds. D.J. then handed out on the health club as a result of she wasn’t consuming.

Bure defined to Fishel that the producers consulted together with her and her dad and mom in regards to the episode to verify she would really feel snug with it. “I was like, ‘Yeah, sure.’ But when you’re in it and doing it, it feels a little awkward,” Bure defined. The actress additionally recalled that she misplaced 20 kilos between that season and the subsequent. The producers “thought it was so great” and so they determined to incorporate a scene within the opening credit during which she’s on an train bike, “just to promote that.”

Fishel then detailed her personal expertise with Boy Meets World addressing her weight achieve in an episode. She shared that, in contrast to Bure’s scenario, the producers didn’t examine in to see if she was nice with this storyline. “When they called me into the office to tell me they were going to [add this storyline], it wasn’t really like they asked,” stated Fishel. She famous that it wasn’t as if her physique had modified drastically. “I had been aware that I had gained weight but I was still a size four.” The episode, “She’s Having My Baby Back Ribs,” additionally commented on her former co-star and Pod Meets World co-host Will Friedle’s weight achieve.

“I remember thinking, ‘Wow, these people think I’ve gained enough weight [that they] have to write an entire episode about my weight gain,” Fishel recalled pondering on the time. “Then right now I have to say I’m fine with it because they didn’t even present to me another alternative. And even if they did, I probably wouldn’t have felt comfortable being like, ‘Yeah, I don’t want to do that.’”