Democratic governor reveals if he’s going to run for president or not

Maryland Governor Wes Moore (D) shocked NBC “Meet the Press” host Kristen Welker on Sunday with his announcement about whether he intends to run for president in the 2028 election.

Speculation has swirled that Moore would run for president, and the Maryland governor is up for reelection in 2026. When asked if Moore intends to serve a full term if reelected, he said yes. When Welker pressed if he would not be running for president, Moore ruled out a presidential run in the next election.

“Yes, I’m going to be serving a full term. I’m excited about re-election. I’m exciting about what I’m gonna be able to do for the people of Maryland,” Moore said.

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“Do you rule out a run for president, governor?” Welker shot back.

“Yeah, I’m not running for president,” Moore replied. 

“You rule it out? Yes. You completely rule it out?” Welker asked.

Moore proceeded to list his accomplishments as governor and said he looks forward to continuing to work leading Maryland. 

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“I’m so excited about what we’re doing, that we’ve gone from 43rd in the country in unemployment to now one of the lowest unemployment rates. We’ve had amongst the fastest drops in violent crime anywhere in the United States of America. Our population is growing, Maryland is moving, and so I’m really excited about going back in front of the people of my state and asking for another term,” Moore said. 

Maryland’s unemployment rate was 3.4% as of July 2025, slightly higher than the previous month, but tied for 14th lowest among all 50 states. Baltimore saw 201 homicides in 2024, according to police data. Its homicide rate represented a ten-year low. However, Maryland’s violent crime rate was 17.1% higher than the national average.

Moore was just one of several names speculated to run for the Democratic nomination in 2028, other prominent Democrats thought to be potential candidates include Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, former Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttiegieg and 2024 Democratic nominee Kamala Harris. New York “squad” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is also thought to be mulling a presidential run.

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A recent Emerson poll found Newsom leading the pack with 25% of respondents saying that they would back him in the 2028 primary, with Pete Buttigieg getting 16% support and Harris garnering only 11%. However, 23% of respondents said they were undecided. Moore was not included in the poll. 

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NBA star’s ‘super protective’ sister murdered, boyfriend charged in brutal killing

The sister of Minnesota Timberwolves star Naz Reid was shot and killed at an apartment complex in New Jersey on Saturday, prosecutors said.

Jackson Township police officers responded to a call about shots fired at an apartment complex at around 11 a.m. ET on Saturday. Responding officers found a deceased woman, identified as Toraya Reid, with multiple gunshot wounds, the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office said.

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Shaquille Green, 29, of Jackson Township, was seen running on a road near the complex and officers were able to take him into custody without incident, officials said. Green, who was determined to have been dating Reid, was later charged in Reid’s death.

Green was charged with murder, possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose and unlawful possession of a weapon, the prosecutor’s office said. He was taken to the Ocean County Jail.

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Naz Reid was born in Asbury Park, New Jersey, only a few miles from where the incident took place. He went to high school in Roselle and later played college basketball at LSU. He posted two photos of himself with his sister when they were younger on his Instagram Stories.

Reid spoke about his sisters Toraya and Jakahya, in an interview with Mpls.St.Paul Magazine in 2023. He called Toraya, his older sister, “super protective.”

“She treats us like she’s our parent,” he said.

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Reid is about to enter his seventh season with Minnesota.

Former NFL star’s dramatic transformation stuns fans during broadcast booth debut

J.J. Watt has been busy since he retired from the NFL after the 2022 season.

He joined CBS Sports as an NFL analyst and became a minority investor in Burnley FC, which earned a promotion to the Premier League. On Sunday, Watt made his debut in the booth for CBS.

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NFL fans immediately noticed that something was different about Watt. He switched up his haircut during the year, departing from the famous crew cut he sported his entire playing career. CBS Sports called it “feathered and lethal.”

He was on the call with Ian Eagle for a game between the New York Jets and Pittsburgh Steelers. Watt’s brother, T.J., plays for the Steelers. 

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CBS announced that Watt would be a color commentator for games starting in the 2025 season.

“There is nothing better than the energy and excitement of being in the stadium on game day in the NFL,” he said in a statement earlier this year. “I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to return to that atmosphere each week, working with one of the best in Ian. While I certainly miss delivering hits on the field, it will be nice to leave the stadium without taking any, unless Ian decides to try something crazy.”

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Watt played 12 years in the NFL between the Houston Texans and Arizona Cardinals. He had 114.5 sacks and won the Defensive Player of the Year three times.

Popular food additives linked to ‘higher risk of dying’ in massive 11-year study

A major new study found that eating more ultra-processed foods (UPFs) – especially those with certain additives – is tied to higher mortality from any cause over about 11 years of follow-up.

Researchers looked at nearly 187,000 adults in the U.K. ages 40 to 75 using data gathered from the U.K. Biobank, and tracked their diets and health for 11 years. The study was published in the journal eClinicalMedicine.

Participants filled out multiple online food diaries describing what they ate in a 24-hour period. To figure out how much UPF and which additives (MUPs) people were really eating, the team matched those reported foods to actual supermarket products, checking ingredient labels for 57 potential markers of MUPs, only some of which are traditional additives.

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Each food was scored based on how likely it was to contain a given additive. 

Then, for every person, researchers calculated what percentage of their total daily food intake came from UPFs or specific additives.

Finally, the team compared these dietary patterns with death records from national health registries to see which additives, and how much of them, were linked with increased mortality during the study period.

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Which additives were riskiest?

Five additive categories showed significant links with higher all-cause mortality (relative to the study’s lowest-risk intake point):

• Flavors – risk rose steadily when flavored foods made up more of the total diet
• Flavor enhancers
• Coloring agents
• Sweeteners – not sugar – like acesulfame, saccharin and sucralose
• Varieties of sugar – in this category, fructose, inverted sugar, lactose, maltodextrin were linked to higher risk

One exception was gelling agents, which were actually linked to lower risk of mortality. The study measured the percent of total food intake by weight.

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When people’s diet consisted of more than 18% UPFs, the risk of mortality began increasing. At 30% of total intake, risk rose by 6%. Risk was 14% higher at 40% of diet, and 19% higher at 50% of diet. 

For flavors, risk was about 20% higher when flavored foods made up 40% of their food intake versus 10%. Colorings were associated with roughly a 24% higher risk at 20% versus 3%. 

Sweeteners were linked to about a 14% higher risk at 20% compared with none.

These estimates come from models adjusted for age, sex, smoking, BMI, blood pressure, alcohol, exercise, income and more.

Caveats

This was observational research, so it cannot prove that additives cause earlier death. 

People who eat more UPFs may differ in other health behaviors that also influence outcomes, and the dietary data rely on self-reported 24-hour recalls matched to product ingredient lists, which can introduce error. 

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The findings address all-cause mortality rather than specific diseases, and although the researchers adjusted for many factors, residual confounding is still possible.

So, what can people do about it? To keep an eye on UPFs in your own life, health institutions like Mayo Clinic offer some tips.

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“While the overconsumption of ultra processed foods has been linked to adverse health outcomes, that doesn’t necessarily mean all processed foods are bad for all people in all situations,” Tara Schmidt, M. Ed., RDN, lead dietitian for the Mayo Clinic Diet, said on the clinic’s website.

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“Reducing the intake of something you eat in large portions daily will make more of a health impact than eliminating something you consume rarely,” Schmidt suggests.

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The American Heart Association recommends limiting intake of ultra-processed foods and focusing instead on a diet rich in “vegetables, fruits, whole grains, beans, nuts, seeds, healthy non-tropical oils, and lean proteins.”

Witness makes chilling claim as police still have no suspect in Burning Man murder

The mystery surrounding the shocking homicide at the Burning Man festival, where a 37-year-old Russian man was found dead in a pool of blood, remains unsolved, police told Fox News Digital.

While investigators in Pershing County are appealing to the public for help, the case has “no update,” per Sheriff Jerry Allen’s office Sunday.

The death of Vadim Kruglov happened over a week ago, on Aug. 30., but detectives have yet to identify a suspect.

The tragedy unfolded between 8 and 9:30 p.m., just as the festival’s iconic wooden effigy, known as The Man, was set ablaze in front of tens of thousands of revelers.

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Deputies found Kruglov’s body “lying in a pool of blood” inside a tent, according to officials. 

His death cast a dark shadow over the annual nine-day event, which promotes community, art and self-expression in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert.

On Wednesday, the Washoe County Regional Medical Examiner confirmed Kruglov’s identity using fingerprints. 

Originally from Omsk, Siberia, Kruglov had been living in Washington state, according to friends’ posts on social media.

The Hollywood Reporter interviewed a woman who claimed she helped alert authorities. 

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Speaking anonymously, the woman said she and her partner were driving out of Black Rock City when an older woman in a red dress flagged them down. 

The stranger, described as being in her 50s or 60s, calmly told them a man in her tent was “bleeding out and might be dead.” 

When asked if she had checked his pulse, the woman replied that she “didn’t want to touch him,” the witness told the outlet.

The group then contacted a Black Rock Ranger they knew via Starlink, who said they relayed the information to the sheriff’s office. 

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Officials are continuing to treat the case as a homicide. 

“We are seeking information regarding any suspect identifiers for any person who would commit such a heinous crime against another human being,” the sheriff’s office had said in a Sep. 3 statement.

Kruglov’s father, Igor, released a video message from Russia expressing his anguish and calling for justice. 

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“Words can’t express my feelings,” he said. “I’m proud of my son, now known worldwide. He felt injustice deeply and fought for fairness always. I believe a similar situation occurred here. I want those responsible to face consequences.”

A GoFundMe has also been organized to return the remains of the body, KOLO 8 News Now reported.

Tomlin’s bizarre label for Steelers kicker raises eyebrows after clutch 60-yard winner

Usually, the superlative for a great kicker in the NFL has something to do with his leg. A “big boot,” “great leg,” or something to that effect are the common terms for the player in the pressure-filled position.

Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin cooked up a new way to describe veteran Chris Boswell on Sunday after he nailed a 60-yard field goal to put the team ahead 34-23 with 1:03 left in the game against the New York Jets. The Steelers held on for the victory.

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“Our kicker is a serial killer,” Tomlin told reporters. “He’s got a low-pulse rate. He can’t wait to deliver.”

Boswell has been able to provide those clutch kicks on a regular basis. He was 2-for-2 from field-goal range and nailed all four extra points on Sunday. He hit a 56-yard field goal in the second quarter. Without Boswell’s makes, the Steelers likely don’t win the game.

“Bos always makes it from 60 in pregame,” Tomlin added. “Bos always wants to bang from deep. That one he made in the first half, I don’t even know if he even looked at me. It’s fourth down and he walked on the field. But that’s the type of guy you want banging for you under those circumstances.”

He joined the Steelers as an undrafted free agent in 2015 and nailed 90.6% of his attempts in his rookie season. It was enough for Pittsburgh to keep bringing him back to the roster.

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Boswell earned the second Pro Bowl nod of his career and his first All-Pro selection last season. He was 41-of-44 on field goal attempts. The 41 makes led the NFL. He was 13-of-15 from 50 yards out or more.

Pittsburgh will have an extra spotlight on them this season because of the high-profile acquisitions of Aaron Rodgers, DK Metcalf, Jalen Ramsey and others during the offseason.

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Getting off to a win in Week 1 certainly will quiet the critics – for now. 

Death row serial killer admits to killing 26 women in shocking prison confession

One of California’s most notorious killers is back in the spotlight as a new documentary revisits his crimes and uncovers even darker secrets.

Joseph Naso, the former photographer convicted in 2013 of killing four women, is now claiming he actually killed 26 women. The bombshell confession comes from a fellow death row inmate, William Noguera, who spent more than a decade building trust with Naso inside California’s infamous San Quentin State Prison.

The chilling revelations are featured in a new Oxygen documentary, “Death Row Confidential: Secrets of a Serial Killer,” premiering Sept. 13.

“He’s guilty of more than anyone knows,” Noguera says during a preview of the new series. “He told me everything, and I wrote all of it down.” 

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Double Life Exposed

Naso’s double life stunned the country. He was a father of two, Little League coach, and school photographer by day – and a sadistic killer by night. Investigators found photographs of what appeared to be dead women among his belongings, along with what investigators dubbed a “hit list,” containing ten cryptic descriptions of female victims.

Even after a jury handed down a death sentence, Naso continued to maintain his innocence in interviews, including an exclusive interview with KGO.

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Noguera, who is also on death row for a 1983 murder, was assigned to assist elderly prisoners as part of a prison disability program, which is where he connected with Naso. Over 10 years, the two developed what was described by several media outlets as an “unusual” relationship. 

Noguera told the outlet that Naso eventually opened up, and offered the stunning admission.

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“When I told him, ‘Well, look, they got you because a list of 10,’ he started laughing,” Noguera recalled. “He said, ‘They got it all wrong. Yeah, I killed them women, yes. But those aren’t my top – those aren’t my list of 10. Those are my top 10.” 

Noguera disclosed even more disturbing details, noting that Naso’s claims of killing 26 women may be supported by something reportedly found in the search of Naso’s home. Noguera told the outlet, “They found a coin collection with 26 gold heads. Those represent his trophies, they represent the 26 women that he murdered.”

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Determined to document everything, Noguera compiled a 300-page dossier filled with cryptic clues, locations and partial confessions. He passed the files to retired FBI task force investigator Ken Mains, who took on the case pro bono.

While Naso never named his victims, his rambling stories hinted at forgotten crimes. In one ploy, Noguera convinced him to put a confession in writing, dangling the possibility of a prison transfer to get closer to his sons.

In his own words, Naso reportedly described luring a woman through a modeling ad, driving her home, killing her and dumping her body under the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge.

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The description matched the disappearance of Berkeley woman Lynn Ruth Connes in the 1970s, KGO noted. She had answered a modeling ad, and her bike was later found chained near the exact spot Naso described.

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Working together, Detective Mains and Noguera linked Naso to several cold cases, including Connes’. Piece by piece, they are putting names to the women Naso once reduced to cryptic notes – and delivering long-awaited answers to grieving families.

“But now they know what really happened to her,” Noguera said. “And that has been my goal the whole time, is to give the victim’s family just that closure, that finalization, that’s the whole motivating factor behind all of this.”

Naso, who was dubbed the “Alphabet Killer,” gained his grim nickname after being found guilty in 2013 of murdering four women whose first and last names began with the same letter. The victims included Roxene Roggasch, 18, Carmen Colon, 22, Pamela Parsons, 38, and Tracy Tafoya, 31, with their deaths occurring between 1977 and 1994.

Authorities had previously investigated Naso in connection to the unsolved “Alphabet Murders” of three young girls in his hometown, Rochester, New York, in the 1970s. However, DNA evidence ruled him out as a suspect in those cases.

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Naso’s Disturbing Legacy

Investigators also uncovered a diary detailing more than 100 sexual assaults dating back to the 1950s, many involving underage girls. With the new claims emerging, law enforcement agencies across California and the FBI are now re-examining unsolved cases.

“Our two minds, cop and convict, working together. I know that I can solve unsolved murders. Let’s get them,” Mains said. 

As the documentary reveals, Naso’s crimes may stretch further than anyone ever imagined — and his disturbing legacy continues to haunt both investigators and families seeking closure.

Muslim voices back Quebec’s plan to ban public prayer as Islamist ‘theater’ grows

Late last month, Quebec Premier François Legault and Secularism Minister Jean-François Roberge announced that they will introduce a new law this fall to ban prayer in public spaces. The measure comes in response to what Roberge described as the “proliferation of street prayer” — a practice that has become synonymous with mass Islamist displays, particularly in the wake of pro-Hamas and pro-Palestinian demonstrations. 

Street prayer is no longer the image of quiet devotion. From Toronto to Times Square, it is political theater, often conducted en masse, blocking roads, obstructing entrances and projecting intimidation into the heart of civic life.

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Legault was blunt: “When you want to pray, you go in a church or a mosque— not in a public place.” Roberge added that such practices generate unease, erode neutrality and risk public order. 

The echoes of Bill 21, Quebec’s 2019 law banning public-sector workers from wearing religious symbols, are impossible to ignore. That earlier law asserted Quebec’s right to defend laïcité — or secularism, in French — with teeth. Now the province is extending the same logic to the streets.

Predictably, civil liberties organizations and establishment Muslim leaders have raised alarms. Based in Toronto, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association responded to the plans with a statement that a ban on public prayer collides head-on with protections of religion, expression and assembly in Canada’s Charter, a part of the country’s constitution. The Canadian Muslim Forum labeled the proposed law stigmatizing. And Montreal Archbishop Christian Lépine went so far as to claim that banning public prayer would be “like forbidding thought itself.”

The rhetoric is heavy, but it misses the core issue: Public prayer in this context is not an act of private conscience. It is a performance of power in shared civic space.

To say so is not “Islamophobic.” It is Islamic. The Prophet Muhammad himself cautioned against praying in the middle of the road. One hadith, or saying of the prophet, in Sunan Ibn Majah records: “Beware of stopping to rest and praying in the middle of the road, for it is the refuge of snakes and carnivorous animals.” 

Beyond metaphor, the point is clear: Prayer must not endanger others or disrupt public order. Even Islamic law recognizes the folly of obstructing communal life with ritual performance. Quebec, in other words, is not contradicting Islam but upholding a principle embedded within it.

This is not the first time Islamists have sought to stretch the limits of accommodation. Public prayer in Western cities has increasingly been used as a form of political demonstration. It is no coincidence that these displays often coincide with “Free Palestine” rallies that slide easily into antisemitic chants and intimidation of Jewish communities. Outside synagogues and churches, on sidewalks and in squares, mass prayer becomes less about God and more about leverage — about showing who can claim the public square.

Voices within Muslim communities warn against this manipulation. Raheel Raza, a Canadian Muslim journalist and the cofounder of the Clarity Coalition, a network of Muslims, ex-Muslims and allies, challenging Islamist extremism, told me that she opposes religious practices imposed into civic life, from gender-segregated prayers in schools to Islamist infiltration of politics and street prayer. 

Her argument is simple: faith is personal, not a tool for public coercion.

What is at stake here is more than legal balance. It is the cultural coherence of Quebec’s civic life — and the civic life of communities from New York City to London. 

Similarly, Canadian Muslim commentator Mohammed Rizwan, a member of the Clarity Coalition, condemns the politicization of prayer in public spaces, calling it “a deliberate act to provoke and divide.” 

Their perspectives matter precisely because they refuse the false binary that criticism of Islamism is an attack on Islam It is the opposite: a defence of faith against those who weaponize it.

They also belie the reductionist allegation that all Muslims are Islamists in hiding. 

The constitutional battle to come is inevitable. The Supreme Court’s 2015 decision in Mouvement laïque québécois v. Saguenay established that even municipal prayers violate the state’s duty of neutrality. Quebec is not forging a new path. It is following a jurisprudence that insists public institutions cannot privilege religious expression. 

And, as with Bill 21, the government may well invoke the notwithstanding clause to shield this new law from Charter challenges. Critics will cry authoritarianism, but the real authoritarianism lies in the Islamists who claim the right to seize public streets for political theater under the guise of prayer.

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What is at stake here is more than legal balance. It is the cultural coherence of Quebec’s civic life — and the civic life of communities from New York City to London. 

Public spaces are the commons where neutrality must prevail. To surrender them to religious or ideological spectacle is to surrender the very idea of a shared civic realm. Secularism is not intolerance. It is the only principle that guarantees equal freedom for all, regardless of creed.

Quebec’s proposal, then, is not a ban on prayer. It is a defense of the public square. Prayer belongs in mosques, churches, synagogues and homes. The streets belong to everyone. In refusing to conflate religious devotion with political intimidation, Quebec is asserting a truth that is both secular and, paradoxically, Islamic: worship that obstructs and divides has no place in the civic realm.

This legislation will be polarizing. It will be challenged. But it will also draw a line — a line that says Canada, Quebec in particular, and, dare say, one day, the world, will not be cowed into letting Islamist street politics redefine our public life. 

Laïcité is not just an idea. It is a shield. And Quebec is once again prepared to use it.

‘Full House’ star removes beach photo after fans flood comments about her appearance

Though Candace Cameron Bure has always been open and vulnerable with her fans, some things just aren’t worth the hassle of social media responses, she declared.

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.”

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During an episode of “The Candace Cameron Bure Podcast” in April, Bure opened up about her personal battle with body image and explained how her faith has helped her find “a whole new perspective” on how she views herself.  

“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 then God allowed my body to speak back, and my body said back to me, ‘Have I not been the body that’s carried you all the days of your life? Am I not your legs that allow you to walk? Am I not your arms that allow you to pick up and feed yourself?… Why do you hurt me so badly, and why do you talk to me so badly, and why do you treat me this way? I can lift you up … you have to tell me what to do. I’m following your lead.'”

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“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.” 

Bure admitted she now has “a whole different perspective of how I think about my body.”

“I was so mean to myself … and looking back it breaks my heart. Learning to speak with kindness to my body has been a journey, and I know I’m not alone in this. To those who relate — I hope you can feel me giving you the biggest virtual hug right now. And I hope you’ll join me in showing ourselves the grace and love we truly deserve,” she said.

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. 

“I had a great body image growing up,” Bure said at a panel for #EatingRecoveryDay in New York City, according to People. “My parents were wonderful, and protective of not allowing the entertainment industry to shape me into what they believed a standard of body image of perfection was.”

“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. 

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“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.’”

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“But we know that’s not true,” she added. “And we also know just to apply it back to biblical principles, that God does not love us more or less dependent upon our weight or our body size or our shape. He doesn’t love us or value us anymore or less depending on how we look. He’s a God of the heart that judges the heart, and it’s all about who we are on the inside. And that is where I will continually go back to. No matter how the culture changes in terms of diet and what fad and what body type is in, I know that God loves me for who I am and my heart and doesn’t pay attention to the exterior and places no value in it whatsoever.”