Candice Cameron Bure got real open about sex when she appeared on the Confessions of a Crappy Christian podcast recently. The actress reflected on the backlash she received from Christians after she posted a playful picture back in September. In the photo, her husband is seen grabbing her boob.
“For those of you who may casually follow me on Instagram, you will know that my husband is not on Instagram very often. I call him the unicorn because he only makes an appearance a couple times a year,” she said.
The couple was out to lunch with their 20-year-old son Lev that one September day. She said it was “so pretty” outside that she asked if they could take some pics together.
“At the very end of it, he had his arm draped around my shoulder, and then the very last picture he grabbed my boob,” she explained. “And I said, ‘Oh my gosh, this is so funny, can I please post this?'”
Candice originally posted the photo on her Instagram Story and got a lot of positive messages. However, not everyone had nice responses.
“Oh that’s so inappropriate that you posted that as a Christian. You should be more modest,” she said describing some of the comments she received. This led her to not just defend the picture, but also repost it on her feed with the perfect caption.
“I’ve been married for 24 years. I’m a Christian, my husband’s a Christian and I’m really proud that we’ve managed to stay married for 24 years. And the fact that we have fun and we flirt together, this is part of what makes our marriage work,” she explained. “This is something to be celebrated as a Christian.”
“Sex doesn’t stop once you get married. Sex is the blessing of marriage and I hate when Christians are like, no, you have to pretend like you’ve never had sex, and we only know that you’ve had sex three times because you’ve had three children,” she continued. “If we are to promise ourselves for one another and preach saving yourself for marriage, then sex needs to be celebrated within marriage.”
Candice continued to reflect how hard it use to be to embrace her sexuality when she was a newlywed.
“I lived in such a fear of ‘Oh my gosh, I’m not supposed to be a sexual person, because I have to save myself. God is going to think negatively of me if I’m having sex or doing things or fooling around,” she explained. “There was such a shame culture on it that when I got married, I was like, I don’t know how to adjust my brain.”
“For so many times, especially in the beginning, but for a few years, I would have sex with my husband thinking like, ‘Oh my gosh, is God looking at me and like is this bad?” She continued. “It’s very difficult to flip that switch. And it has taken years to work through it and then understand it and enjoy it and then embrace it. Now I embrace it so much that my kids are like, ‘Mom, please stop talking about sex. Please stop.'”
Sex. Gotta love it, especially as a married couple. Amiright?
