Candace Cameron Bure has been on the fence when it comes to getting Botox injections.
“If I’m just being totally honest, I am fighting it because I have shot three movies this year back to back to back,” Cameron Bure, 49, said on the Tuesday, September 23, episode of her eponymous podcast. “I’m trying to figure it out.”
She continued, “I love my social community on Instagram and TikTok, and I love talking to [fans] there. I love your messages. People always ask me questions, like, ‘What’s your skincare? Do you do Botox?’ I’m, like, ‘Look at my forehead. No, I don’t do Botox [and] I’ve never had filler in my face. None of that.’”
According to Cameron Bure, she’s received “countless comments” from social media users praising her decision not to have any cosmetic procedures done.
“People say, ‘Thank you for not getting Botox. Thank you for being a real woman [and] letting me see a famous person, or someone on TV, age with grace,’” she recalled. “‘Thank you for helping me feel OK in my own skin because you’re not putting that in your face.’ They make me cry, but they convict me so much.”
Cameron Bure stressed that she has been “holding off” on getting Botox because of her online supporters.
“I know in my heart I want to age as beautifully as my mom, and I believe I will, but the industry that I’m in is making it so hard,” the Full House alum said. “It’s just, like, the pressure. It’s not even the pressure from people telling me that I should do it, but I’m just visually looking … at all the other actresses that are around my age. [Then, I ask myself,] ‘What age am I playing on camera? How are my leading men aging?’”
Cameron Bure further acknowledged that many men “get more gorgeous” with age and don’t have to deal with unrealistic beauty standards that prioritize youth and demonize aging.
“And then women just look old,” Cameron Bure said. “I’m having all the feelings about it. I’m kind of a person, at this point, [where I say] never say never. I’m not writing it into [a] book because I can’t tell you that I might not have it. As of today, I don’t have any [and] I’m not getting it today, but I’m thinking about it.”
The former child star noted that “the wrinkles on [her] face” have been swaying her decision more and more.
“I just shot a movie, and there’s a flashback scene in it. It’s supposed to be from 15 years ago, so I’m supposed to be about 30 years old,” Cameron Bure said of one of her upcoming projects. “We filmed the scene … but then in post, that means after we’ve shot it, we put the whole movie together. It goes to VFX [and] it goes to effects. They are going to color-correct the movie [and] will then digitally alter my face so that I look younger.”
Cameron Bure watched film editors use technology to smooth out her forehead wrinkles, adjust her crow’s feet and fix where her cheeks could be “a little puffier.”
“The cheeks, like, keep you young,” Cameron Bure said. “So, my face is thinner and I’m, like, ‘Is there any way you can puff my cheeks up a little for this flashback?’ They’re like, ‘OK, you know it all depends on money. More you do, the more it costs. Every alteration is money.’”
For the movie, which Cameron Bure didn’t name, the editors used their budget to concentrate on her forehead, crow’s feet, smile lines and neck.
“As much as I joke about it, this is my reality,” she noted. “This is my reality of how I have to age in front of a lot of people. I know I chose this job — and I love this job and want to be in it — but it’s a whole other psychological thinking in my brain that I think about.”
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