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12-29-2010, 09:31 PM
As a child star of the hit series Full House, Candace Cameron Bure had to weather life's most awkward stages – baby fat and all – on national television.
Now 35, she's never been in better shape. Her secret? A pro-athlete husband, three active kids and lessons learned from a never-before-revealed battle with bulimia.
"It's a very dangerous cycle that can just start to consume your life and really take over," Cameron Bure tells PEOPLE. In her new book Reshaping It All, the actress reveals that she began binging and purging after Full House ended its run in 1995 and she was adjusting to life in Canada with her new husband, Russian-born NHL player Valeri Bure.
"It wasn't about me trying to lose weight," says Cameron Bure, whose older brother is Growing Pains star Kirk Cameron. "It was all about emotions."
Now at a healthy weight, the star of the ABC Family series Make It or Break It says she stays svelte thanks to plenty of family exercise time with Bure, 36, and kids Natasha, 12, Lev, 10, and Maks, 8, and a diet philosophy that allows everything – including her self-professed "weakness," dessert! – in moderation.
Article courtesy of PEOPLE.com
FYI: A myth to debunk: Kirk Cameron's IMDB listing lists his date of birth as October 12, 1970. Guess what that info is--FALSE! The real truth, according to E! Entertainment Television, contrary to what I, like the rest of you think, used to believe is this--in actuality, Kirk's 100% correct date of birth is October 12, 1969.
Here's the main evidence--Kirk, now age 41, graduated high school in 1988. Before the Kennedy assassination, if you attended public school and were born in a calendar year a la 1958, whether you were born New Year's Eve or New Year's Day, you graduated high school with those born in the calendar year. Little do most of you know, and the following I will say is historically accurate, after Lyndon Baines Johnson took over for President in late 1963, LBJ signed into law a law that took effect in 1965 that still exists today--if you were born after September 1 of a given calendar year, and attended public school, you were automatically cut off into the next grade.
Case in point: my cousin, Daniel Stephen Hooley, born December 9, 1984. Had Danny been born August 9, 1984, he would have graduated high school in 2002, but since he was born December 9, 1984, Danny graduated high school in 2003.
Likewise with Kirk Cameron, who was born October 12, 1969--when Kirk wasn't being tutored on the "Growing Pains" set every 4th week, he attended public school and graduated high school in 1988, information from Kirk's "E! True Hollywood Story" episode included as part of "Growing Pains THS."
Similarly with Candace, who graduated from public high school in 1993, at age 18. Sure, Candace's IMDB listing lists her date of birth as April 6, 1976, but that's FALSE--she was actually born on April 6, 1975.
It's not that uncommon for showbiz actors to shave years off their ages to make themselves younger for parts in film and/or TV.
Sometimes, the actor's true age isn't revealed until AFTER their demise.
Case in point: Eddie Albert, who shaved 2 years off his true age to make himself younger when he started in showbiz.
The most surprising thing, on a personal note, I learned about Kirk from his memoir "Still Growing," published in April 2008, written in 2007 about the first 37 years of his life as of when the book was written, was that, during his initial teen-idol peak, his & Candace's parents, Rob and Barbara, divorced in 1986 after 17 years of marriage and 2 celebrity children.
Soon after Kirk's religious conversion, which happened after making the movie "Like Father, Like Son" in 1987, at age 17, Rob & Barbara reconciled and eventually remarried.
Today, at age 41, Kirk Cameron is a famous evangelical preacher.
Now 35, she's never been in better shape. Her secret? A pro-athlete husband, three active kids and lessons learned from a never-before-revealed battle with bulimia.
"It's a very dangerous cycle that can just start to consume your life and really take over," Cameron Bure tells PEOPLE. In her new book Reshaping It All, the actress reveals that she began binging and purging after Full House ended its run in 1995 and she was adjusting to life in Canada with her new husband, Russian-born NHL player Valeri Bure.
"It wasn't about me trying to lose weight," says Cameron Bure, whose older brother is Growing Pains star Kirk Cameron. "It was all about emotions."
Now at a healthy weight, the star of the ABC Family series Make It or Break It says she stays svelte thanks to plenty of family exercise time with Bure, 36, and kids Natasha, 12, Lev, 10, and Maks, 8, and a diet philosophy that allows everything – including her self-professed "weakness," dessert! – in moderation.
Article courtesy of PEOPLE.com
FYI: A myth to debunk: Kirk Cameron's IMDB listing lists his date of birth as October 12, 1970. Guess what that info is--FALSE! The real truth, according to E! Entertainment Television, contrary to what I, like the rest of you think, used to believe is this--in actuality, Kirk's 100% correct date of birth is October 12, 1969.
Here's the main evidence--Kirk, now age 41, graduated high school in 1988. Before the Kennedy assassination, if you attended public school and were born in a calendar year a la 1958, whether you were born New Year's Eve or New Year's Day, you graduated high school with those born in the calendar year. Little do most of you know, and the following I will say is historically accurate, after Lyndon Baines Johnson took over for President in late 1963, LBJ signed into law a law that took effect in 1965 that still exists today--if you were born after September 1 of a given calendar year, and attended public school, you were automatically cut off into the next grade.
Case in point: my cousin, Daniel Stephen Hooley, born December 9, 1984. Had Danny been born August 9, 1984, he would have graduated high school in 2002, but since he was born December 9, 1984, Danny graduated high school in 2003.
Likewise with Kirk Cameron, who was born October 12, 1969--when Kirk wasn't being tutored on the "Growing Pains" set every 4th week, he attended public school and graduated high school in 1988, information from Kirk's "E! True Hollywood Story" episode included as part of "Growing Pains THS."
Similarly with Candace, who graduated from public high school in 1993, at age 18. Sure, Candace's IMDB listing lists her date of birth as April 6, 1976, but that's FALSE--she was actually born on April 6, 1975.
It's not that uncommon for showbiz actors to shave years off their ages to make themselves younger for parts in film and/or TV.
Sometimes, the actor's true age isn't revealed until AFTER their demise.
Case in point: Eddie Albert, who shaved 2 years off his true age to make himself younger when he started in showbiz.
The most surprising thing, on a personal note, I learned about Kirk from his memoir "Still Growing," published in April 2008, written in 2007 about the first 37 years of his life as of when the book was written, was that, during his initial teen-idol peak, his & Candace's parents, Rob and Barbara, divorced in 1986 after 17 years of marriage and 2 celebrity children.
Soon after Kirk's religious conversion, which happened after making the movie "Like Father, Like Son" in 1987, at age 17, Rob & Barbara reconciled and eventually remarried.
Today, at age 41, Kirk Cameron is a famous evangelical preacher.