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"Full House was the can&amp;amp;#8217;t-miss-TV-show of my youth&amp;amp;#8212;can you believe it premiered 25 years ago?&amp;amp;#8212;so my inner 13-year-old was freaking out when I interviewed Candace Cameron Bure (aka D.J. Tanner) about her favorite episodes, the standout moments, and behind-the-scenes scoop you&amp;amp;#8217;ve never heard before! Glamour: What episodes of Full House stand out to you? Candace Cameron: I think that there are standout episodes that necessarily might not be my favorite but are more well known. [Like when] D.J. had an eating disorder for a day, or the one where D.J. and Kimmy go to a frat party and Kimmy gets drunk, or D.J.&amp;amp;#8217;s 13th episode, which was my first-kiss episode in real life (P.S. You can read about that here) Glamour: What are your favorite episodes? Candace Cameron: My favorite episodes are ones where I got to dress up in something fun. I loved when Uncle Jesse had his band in the house, but he was supposed to be babysitting us three girls, and then D.J. and Stephanie were on top of the speakers in the living room dancing with the band. We got to put these purple streaks in our hair, and I just remember being a 10-year-old kid and that was so much fun. I loved that! (Click here to watch.) I also loved the episodes where it was Michelle&amp;amp;#8217;s birthday, and I dressed up as Wilma from the Flintstones. I got to wear a clown costume once too. Glamour: What about the Tommy Page episode? Candace Cameron: That was kind of a big one. We were really excited, but I think most of the adults were making fun of us for getting so excited over Tommy Page. Wasn&amp;amp;#8217;t Stephanie in love with Tommy Page, and then I thought he was in love with me? I remember the producers asking us which singers were really exciting and hot at the time. Some of our requests were really ridiculous. We requested George Michael, and they were like, &amp;amp;#8220;No, um, can&amp;amp;#8217;t get him!&amp;amp;#8221; But they ended up getting Tommy Page, and we were excited. (Click here to watch.) Glamour: I heard that the telethon episode actually made you cringe. Candace Cameron: This one stands out because I never liked singing on the show. I can kind of carry a tune, but I don&amp;amp;#8217;t have a pretty voice at all. But they were like, &amp;amp;#8220;We have this &amp;amp;#8216;Lollipops and Gummy Bears&amp;amp;#8217; song for you to sing,&amp;amp;#8221; and I&amp;amp;#8217;m like, &amp;amp;#8220;Really, are you kidding me? The person who doesn&amp;amp;#8217;t want to sing [has to sing]!&amp;amp;#8221; And I had to do it with a shopping cart! Everyone thought it was adorable, but I&amp;amp;#8217;ve still never lived down the &amp;amp;#8220;Lollipops and Gummy Bears&amp;amp;#8221; song. (Click here to watch.) Glamour: What was it like working with your brother, Kirk Cameron? Candace Cameron: Oh, that was fun. I think I had done three episodes of Growing Pains before that, so I had worked with my brother before. It was fun when he came to Full House because he was on my turf this time. I was like the proud little sister, knowing that that was exciting for everyone knowing that he was on the show. (Click here to watch.) Glamour: Do you still remember the words to the Full House theme song? Earlier this year, we had Lori Loughlin sing it for us! Candace Cameron: That is awesome! Yes, I think I do! There is a long version of it too, which I don&amp;amp;#8217;t think a lot of people realize. It ran during the first season, but in the seasons after, they shortened it. Glamour: What was your favorite hairstyle of D.J.&amp;amp;#8217;s? Candace Cameron: I thought each one was hip and cool, but I think my favorite at the moment&amp;amp;#8212;although I&amp;amp;#8217;m not saying it was actually the best&amp;amp;#8212; was more when I was 14 or 15, and my hair was long and straight. I had just gotten past the curly stage, but it was very winged out on the side and high bangs. I thought that was super cool because we couldn&amp;amp;#8217;t get the hairdressers on the show to style my hair that way. We taped for two days, and then we would pre-tape on Thursday, and then film in front of a live audience on Fridays. So on Thursdays and Fridays, I would go to a salon in Beverly Hills and have the hairdresser blow out my hair those two mornings. The hairdressers on set would just brush it a little just to make sure it stayed like that. They just couldn&amp;amp;#8217;t blow dry it that big basically! I think for two years, I went to salon two days a week to have my hair blown out. Glamour: Was it your decision then to eventually cut your hair? Because your hair was long, then shoulder-length, then chin-length. Candace Cameron: I did it mid-season, and I was around 17. I was just so tired of my long hair and really wanted to cut it shoulder-length, but I knew that if I asked [the producers], they would have told me no. So, being a bratty 17-year-old&amp;amp;#8212;although I wasn&amp;amp;#8217;t really a brat, even though I clearly knew I shouldn&amp;amp;#8217;t have done it&amp;amp;#8212;I went to my hairdresser and I told her to cut it. I showed up on a Monday with my hair shoulder-length, and the day after the producers came up to me and said, &amp;amp;#8220;We need to have a chat with you.&amp;amp;#8221; It was like, &amp;amp;#8220;Okaaaay.&amp;amp;#8221; They said, &amp;amp;#8220;We understand that you have a right to cut your hair, but that&amp;amp;#8217;s not something you&amp;amp;#8217;re really allowed to do in the middle of the season. If we switch around episodes, it&amp;amp;#8217;s not going to make sense. This is something we would have loved to have written in to an episode, and you really should have asked us and waited.&amp;amp;#8221; I just didn&amp;amp;#8217;t want to wait that long! I didn&amp;amp;#8217;t get in trouble, but I got the finger shook at me saying that&amp;amp;#8217;s a no-no. Glamour: Did you ever date any of your love interests on the show? Candace Cameron: I didn&amp;amp;#8217;t date any of them, but Scott [Weinger, who played Steve] and I were really great friends. I took him to my high school senior prom, but he came as my friend. I wasn&amp;amp;#8217;t dating guys while I was on the show. I was too busy working. Glamour: Did you have a crush on John Stamos? Candace Cameron: No, I never did. I probably have more of a crush on him now than when I was on the show. He&amp;amp;#8217;s so handsome. I think I was too young when the show started. It was like he was my brother or an uncle or something, so I didn&amp;amp;#8217;t really go through that &amp;amp;#8220;I have a crush on you, and this is weird&amp;amp;#8221; phase. Thankfully! Glamour: You recently got together with the entire cast [minus Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen] for the 25th anniversary of Full House. How often do you keep in touch on a regular basis? Candace Cameron: We are all pretty close, but I&amp;amp;#8217;m closest to Andrea Barber and Dave Coulier. I see them the most of anyone, but I&amp;amp;#8217;ve seen Bob [Saget] and John this year and last year more than I have in a long time. We support each other&amp;amp;#8217;s charities and events, so I see them throughout the year, but on a consistent basis, I talk to Dave and Andrea the most. Glamour: Is it ever awkward to be asked about the Olsen twins? I know that whenever you have a reunion, all anyone ever asks is, &amp;amp;#8220;Where are Mary-Kate and Ashley?&amp;amp;#8221; Candace Cameron: I don&amp;amp;#8217;t get tired of answering it, but I just don&amp;amp;#8217;t have a brilliant answer for it. I can&amp;amp;#8217;t speak for them. I don&amp;amp;#8217;t know why they don&amp;amp;#8217;t come or don&amp;amp;#8217;t participate in some of the things we do. I don&amp;amp;#8217;t even know what coast they even live on, so I don&amp;amp;#8217;t know if it&amp;amp;#8217;s a geographical thing or whatnot. But the truth is, they made the show [playing Michelle]. And now they are grown women, and I&amp;amp;#8217;m sure as much of a hard time as I have remembering things, I&amp;amp;#8217;m sure there is a lot that they just don&amp;amp;#8217;t remember. It&amp;amp;#8217;s probably more annoying for them to be asked all the time because they are probably thinking, &amp;amp;#8220;We were babies, and didn&amp;amp;#8217;t even know!&amp;amp;#8221; We all love one other, and they were really fantastic. Glamour: Did you keep any memorabilia from the show? Candace Cameron: I did. I kept D.J.&amp;amp;#8217;s pillow person, but sadly, a couple of years ago, my dog ate a couple of limbs off the pillow person, so that was a shame! But I still have it. It was fun at the reunion because John kept a ton of stuff from the set that we didn&amp;amp;#8217;t realize. He brought Michelle&amp;amp;#8217;s pig, Pinky the Pig, to the reunion. He has tons of Full House stuff at his house. I guess he had wanted to take almost the entire set, and they didn&amp;amp;#8217;t let him take everything, but he did take as much as he could. Aside from the pillow person, I have everyone&amp;amp;#8217;s nametag off of the dressing room doors. Don&amp;amp;#8217;t ask me why! I also snagged all the backs of the director&amp;amp;#8217;s chairs that have our names on it. Glamour: Recently, you went back to the San Francisco house seen in the opening and took a picture in front of it. Candace Cameron: We&amp;amp;#8217;re in Napa a lot because we have a winery, so one day we went to San Francisco and to Alamo Square because I hadn&amp;amp;#8217;t been back. It was fun for [my] kids to see it and probably most fun for me. Any time any fan goes to that spot, they tweet me their own pics. It&amp;amp;#8217;s great. I get &amp;amp;#8220;We&amp;amp;#8217;re in front of the Full House house&amp;amp;#8221; so often! Glamour: I heard you&amp;amp;#8217;re releasing your second book. Can you tell me a little bit about that? Candace Cameron: It won&amp;amp;#8217;t be out until January of 2014, so we&amp;amp;#8217;re just kind of at that year mark. It&amp;amp;#8217;s not on healthy living, like the first one, but it will have something in it for everyone about life, family, work, community, mommy, faith. What was your favorite episode of Full House? Photos: Courtesy of Candace Cameron, Twitter, YouTube"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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