Candace Cameron Bure is probably one of the most famous child stars from the ’90s. Her role as D.J. Tanner on Full House at age 11 made her one of the most recognized faces on TV. But Full House and, later, Netflix’s Fuller House, aren’t her only career highlights. She’s got plenty. Now, turning 50 in 2026, the actress is looking back at nearly 40 years since she played the character that made her famous.
Cameron Bure was born in California in 1976, and by 1983, she already had her first TV credit on the CBS sitcom Alice. Before she showed up on Full House, she had plenty of small gigs on shows like Punky Brewster and Who’s the Boss?.
In 2017, she shared on Facebook that she still receives residual checks from her childhood performances, although most of them were only worth 55 cents and 11 cents.
Everything changed for Candace Cameron Bure in 1987 when she landed D.J. Tanner on Full House alongside Bob Saget, John Stamos, Jodie Sweetin, and Dave Coulier. Overnight, she became part of America’s living room.
The show ran until 1995, ending when she was still a teenager. Decades later, she described the cancellation on The Candace Cameron Bure Podcast as a sudden breakup. “They were a second family to me,” she said. And after eight long years, they split up.
Around that same time, she met Valeri Bure when she was 18. He was the first guy she seriously dated. “It just went from like zero to 100,” she told Us Weekly. They married when she was 20 and she stepped back from acting for nearly a decade to raise their kids.
But by 2015, she was ready to circle back and give acting another go. Netflix announced Fuller House, with Candace returning as D.J. Tanner. Now, the actress didn’t just act in the show, she got to direct episodes too. The reboot premiered in 2016 and ran for five seasons. Around the same time, she launched a Christian décor line with DaySpring and joined The View. That job didn’t last long. The cross-country commute wore her down.
Then, in 2022, she left Hallmark Channel for Great American Family, a move that sparked debate after comments she made to The Wall Street Journal about “traditional marriage.”
Now 49, Candace is talking honestly about aging. She told Us Weekly she’s had Botox. “I feel better for it,” she said, adding she supports anyone doing what works for them. But she didn’t change her look. After all these years, Candace Cameron Bure still looks like the same D.J. Tanner we loved from Full House. Just a little older. And a little wiser.
“I want to be on God’s side of history, so everyone else’s opinions can change every few years, every decade, whatever. But I know that God’s word never changes, therefore, I don’t want to change. If God doesn’t, I don’t want to,” she told US Weekly.
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