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Candace Cameron Bure reflects on her Full House journey, her faith, her growing family and her approach to healthy aging.
Key takeaways
- Candace Cameron Bure credits Full House with shaping her love of storytelling.
- Faith, family and fitness guide her priorities and approach to aging.
- She looks forward to becoming a grandmother and spending more time with loved ones.
Summary
Candace Cameron Bure reflects on her career, family life and personal values. Looking back on her years on Full House, she shares gratitude for the positive environment that shaped her passion for storytelling and continues to influence her work producing movies and television.
Bure says faith is her top priority, followed by family and fitness. She emphasizes the benefits of staying active as she gets older, celebrates becoming stronger with age and looks forward to becoming a grandmother. Throughout her reflections, she highlights the importance of appreciating loved ones and making the most of time together.
The key takeaways and summary were created with the assistance of generative AI. An AARP editor reviewed and refined the content for accuracy and clarity.
Full transcript
[0:00:00] Being on Full House was one of the greatest experiences of my life.
[0:00:05] I made forever friends and family, and it set me on a path of loving storytelling.
[0:00:18] Being a kid actor, I didn’t seek out to be in the spotlight.
[0:00:22] It was just something I really liked.
[0:00:24] I was born and raised in L.A., and so it just kind of worked
[0:00:28] out to try it and do it.
[0:00:30] And so I’m so grateful for those formative years and being on Full House
[0:00:34] and being around people that made the experience so positive, so joyful.
[0:00:42] And so as I’ve continued, um, being in entertainment and now running a company
[0:00:48] producing movies and television, I always make sure that that is the experience
[0:00:54] I’m giving people, no matter what age.
[0:01:08] I love talking about Christmas.
[0:01:10] It is obviously my favorite holiday.
[0:01:13] I love that I’ve made so many Christmas movies over the years
[0:01:16] and produced many as well.
[0:01:18] I love bringing families together to coview and watch, to laugh and cry,
[0:01:24] and sit together, spend time together.
[0:01:26] I would say if I have to prioritize things in my life,
[0:01:30] faith is always gonna be first.
[0:01:31] My faith has been a huge part of my life since I was a young girl,
[0:01:36] and it just keeps getting stronger.
[0:01:37] My family’s gonna be second, and I would say fitness is
[0:01:42] probably the third one for me.
[0:01:44] My family, I just wanna spend time with the people that I love the most,
[0:01:48] and that is really the goal of why health and fitness is important to me.
[0:01:53] And I love that I’ve actually become stronger at 50 years old than I was
[0:01:59] at 30, and you’re never too old, and it’s never too late to start doing
[0:02:04] things new or kicking it up a notch.
[0:02:17] I am so excited to become a grandmother.
[0:02:20] It was so delightful to get the news.
[0:02:23] I have been talking about being called Candy Gram for a very long time.
[0:02:27] I do not know if the kids will be able to say it or pronounce it, and they can
[0:02:31] call me whatever they want, but, uh, I thought Candy Gram was really cute.
[0:02:36] And I wanna be the best grandma I can be so that the kids wanna
[0:02:39] be around me, and my actual kids wanna give them to us all the time.
[0:02:44] I just wanna spend time with the people that I love the most.
[0:02:49] And as I get older, that’s really what I think about often is being grateful
[0:02:54] for the people in my life, and being able to spend time, ’cause it just keeps
[0:02:59] going faster and faster the older we get, and you realize how precious it is.
