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Date and Issue: Collector's Edition Number 1, 1985.
LYNDA CARTER was singing at the Pizza Inn in Scottsdale, Arizona as a teenager, but longed for a bigger slice of life. Her mother persuaded her to enter a local beauty pageant and, within weeks, she was chosen Miss World USA of 1973 (above). At the time, Lynda recalls, "My head was swollen. I thought I was hot." She was also broke and on the verge of eviction when she agreed to show just how "swollen" she'd become by baring all in the low-budget Bobbi Jo and the Outlaw (1976). Of her three separate topless scenes (all shown here) Lynda is blunt: "I wouldn't do it today. I was alone and vulnerable at the time. It's something I did and something I learned a big lesson from." Maybe we can pick up a few pointers, too...
Celebrity Sleuth’s Insights
Born: July 24, 1951 Phoenix, Arizona.
Married: agent Ron Samuels, 1977-1982 attorney Robert Altman, 1984.
• She has been acclaimed the Most Beautiful Woman in the World by the Academy of Beauty, one of Mr. Blackwell's Ten BestDressed Women in the World, and one of the International Bachelors Association's Ten Most Exciting Women in the World.
• Of her divorce Lynda says, "It was the first thing in my life that failed." Ironically, the question that lost the Miss World finals for her was, "Do you think the institution of marriage will die out in the next decade?"
• Of Wonder Woman she's thankful: "That senes was a great experience. I would have paid them to let me do it," she says.
• And of her new show, Partners in Crime with Loni Anderson, Lynda is equally enthused: "This is not a sexploitation series. There's nothing wrong with a little glamour [but] that's very different from showing a lot of skin for no reason at all. Neither of us would have done a show like that."
• Now a born-again Christian, Lynda asserts: "I hate men looking at me and thinking what they think." Forgive us, 0 Wonder Woman, for we know not what we do...
"THE NUDITY wasn't really in bad taste," understates Lynda "Besides, that was years ago and things like that tend to fall by the wayside eventually." Unfortunately for the former Miss Phoenix, they also tend to rise from the ashes and, even eight years later, can still light a fire that's distinguished but never extinguished. And she only thought she was hot!
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