Beloved actress Candace Cameron Bure, known for her iconic role as D.J. Tanner, recently celebrated her 50th birthday and upcoming grandparenthood, inspiring a profound reevaluation of life’s true successes beyond the spotlight.
In the late 1980s, Full House captivated audiences for eight seasons and 192 episodes. In 2016, Fuller House was produced by Netflix as a spin-off of the original Full House series. Lead actress Candace Cameron Bure, who played D.J. Tanner, now finds herself navigating many seasons her character embraced on the series.
In April of 2026, the actress and producer turned 50 and became a soon-to-be grandma since two of her children are expecting. After spending much of her life on the big screen, Bure now jumps into new and exciting ventures: a devotional and a nationwide live tour.
According to the Christian Post, Bure’s decision to pursue these two ambitions came from the realization that growing older is a reminder to make sure you’re pursuing what really matters in this life and the life to come:
“You think about all the accomplishments in life, your goals, what you want to achieve, what you have achieved,” Bure told The Christian Post. “Yet, as you get older, I know that turning 50 reminded me that the accomplishments and the goals aren’t what I consider successes in life.”
“I think about the legacy that I want to leave with my children, with my grandchildren, and publicly as a public person,” she added. “That is sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ and sharing the love of God.”
In Wild Hope, her new 30-day devotional produced by Faith Gateway, Bure explores how readers can rest in the goodness of God despite life’s most unsettling and anxious moments. It gleans not just from her experiences, but a deep hope that grounds her eternal faith.
“We all need hope,” she said. “Sometimes we need it in the big things, in the extraordinary things, and a lot of times we need to find it in the ordinary. … It’s the little disappointments that just add up. You can often lose hope that life isn’t going the way you expected or wanted or even prayed about.”
This fall, Bure will share similar themes on her live family-friendly tour with Dr. Tabitha Barber, a functional medicine practitioner known for her work on women’s health and wellness.
“I love people,” she said. “As much as I get to entertain people, I’m on one side of the camera. Being able to meet people, talk to people, share stories in person is just very different.”
As she enters this new chapter, Bure hopes that others see the love of God through her endeavors.
“When you have a perspective that looks toward God at who God is, and not just ourselves and our circumstances, things can then start to change. There is beauty even in the ashes.”
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Originally published July 01, 2026.
