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Candace Cameron Bure On Young Love, Motherhood and the Entertainment Industry

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Candace Cameron Bure says she took a 10-year gap from working to stay home with her children.

Lauren Simonetti greets Candace Cameron Bure with easy nostalgia. The conversation quickly lands on how long Candace has been a public face, and Candace laughs that being called DJ Tanner still makes her happy. From there, Lauren starts running through Candace's current projects, and the list is long enough to sound almost absurd: a Dr. Lancer skincare partnership, eight books, three children's books, the One Step Closer Bible, a clothing line, and a stack of Hallmark films, including Christmas movies. Candace does not treat the list like a victory lap. She keeps pulling the focus back to why she makes things at all. She says she wants her writing to be passionate and useful, something encouraging enough that a reader or listener walks away with a real takeaway. That leads naturally into why she wrote children's books. Those books, she says, came from a dream she had when her own kids were little and newly born. The interview then turns to the bigger life choice behind her time away from acting. Candace says she took about a ten-year gap because she wanted to be home and raise her children. She is honest that the choice scared her. At first, she thought she would keep working, bring the kids to set, and figure it out as she went. Instead, she realized she could not give her kids the attention she wanted if she stayed on the road. Her husband was also traveling half the year as an NHL player, so the family was already living around motion and separation. She says it took her about two years to actually surrender to motherhood. That surrender sounds ordinary on purpose. She talks about the park, diapers, cooking meals, and the shift from a life in motion since age five to one that looked quieter and less instantly rewarding. Even there, she keeps coming back to the idea that this was not a pause in purpose but part of it. The conversation closes on a lighter note, with Fuller House and Full House still acting as a bridge between Candace and the kids watching at home.

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A candid career-and-family conversation with enough nostalgia to hook Full House fans.

The episode moves quickly through child stardom, motherhood, and the effort of staying visible while still making a home life work. Candace Cameron Bure is strongest when she talks about the 10-year gap she took to raise her kids, the time her husband spent on the road, and why…

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You get a warm, no-drama conversation about Candice Cameron Bure, motherhood, and the risk of stepping away from work to raise kids.

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