Candace Cameron Bure deletes bathing suit photo after online trolls comment on her body

On Saturday, the "Full House" alum, 49, explained why she decided to delete a photo of herself in a bathing suit after one fan asked her why she removed it from her Instagram. 

"Yes. I was at the beach. I was in a one piece, not a bikini. I am soaking up the end of summer," Bure wrote on her Instagram Stories. "I was having fun. It wasn't about my bathing suit or my body. But the comments became flooded with people discussing my body. It wasn't worth it. I took it down."

"I've whipped my body," an emotional Bure told podcast guests Allie Schnacky and daughter, Natasha Bure. "I've spoken to it so harshly. So mean."

Recounting a dream she once had, Bure said a certain Bible verse - Numbers 22 - allowed her to view her body in a different light: 

"And it was like this amazing revelation in my life," she continued. "And the weirdest story out of the Bible, that God spoke to me about how mean I've been to my body. I never saw it that way - it's this beautiful amazing thing that God gave me." 

This isn't the first time Bure has opened up about her struggles.

In 2016, the mom of three detailed the ins and outs of how she developed an eating disorder years ago. 

"The change of having worked since I was 5 years old to now becoming a wife and soon-to-be mom, and living in a city where I didn't have family and friends around me, I kind of lost the sense of who I was," she said.

In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital in July, Bure got candid about the "scary" way certain fads are reshaping people's perspectives on body image in Hollywood and explained how her faith has helped her in her own journey of finding and embracing body positivity. 

"It can be scary, although I feel like this younger generation has already had so much more body positivity that I hope they understand that it's a trend," Bure said. "I think of my daughter, and she just doesn't have the same viewpoint of body image that I did growing up, and especially as a child of the '80s and '90s. It's like mine's all messed up. I am middle-aged, and I still have all of these thoughts as to the perfect body and this and that, and it's troubling."

"Yet my daughter and her friends and all of that have way less, they don't think about bodies like that," she continued. "So I hope that they do understand that it's a trend. But yeah, it does freak me out. It makes me sad to see everyone suddenly becoming skinny because I think it's very triggering for a lot of people our age that grew up in the '80s and '90s. It was the 'Kate Moss era' and you're like, 'Oh, this is what we have to be attractive.'"