Candace Cameron Bure’s positive attitude is genuine, according to herFull HousedadBob Saget.

The Hallmark star, 45, revealed on Saget’s podcastHere For Youon Monday that she often gets criticized for appearing to be happy all the time.

“I’m going to ask you to talk about me for a second,” Cameron BuretoldSaget, before asking, “For those people that think that because I am a happy, positive person, that I must be a fake person, would you say that that’s true or false?”

Saget assured his on-screen daughter, “You’re the opposite of fake.”

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“And I’m sorry — you’re perky sometimes. What’s wrong with being perky?” he said in Cameron Bure’s defense.

“Thank you,” the mom-of-three told Saget.

Saget and Cameron Bure first started working together in 1987 as a father-daughter pair onFull Houseand later the rebootFuller House, which made its debut on Netflix in 2016.

Saget added, “You’re a positive person. So if you’re perky, it’s because you’re excited, and/or you’ve had a lot of caffeine. That’s what people should know — there’s nothing fake about you.”

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Cameron Bure isn’t shy when it comes tocalling out social media trolls, especially when it comes responding to criticism aimed at her husbandValeri Bure, daughterNatasha, 22, and sonsLev, 21, andMaksim, 19.

TheFuller Housestar spoke toPEOPLE in 10in January aboutdealing with hatersand revealed her daughter has come to her “many days crying because of what people have commented on her social media.”

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Cameron Bure added that you to have “thick skin” if you’re going to be on social media, “which is just a sad thing but it’s truth.'”

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“We have to realize and let people know that there’s real people and feelings behind a computer screen or a phone, so I think standing up for yourself is always appropriate,” Cameron Bure said.

source: people.com