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Date and Issue: February 17, 1987.
At age 37, she has turned her back on Hollywood and is setting up a coz new family home.
WONDER WOMAN Lynda Carter wants to become Wonder Mom for the first time and is building a cozy dream home for her family. The 37-year-old actress has left Hollywood behind and moved to Washington, D.C., with her husband of three years, attorney Robert Altman.
Says Lynda: "I want a lot out of my life — a rich, full life that includes a husband and children." That's why she and 39-year-old Altman are building a home on seven acres in Potomac, Md. — just outside the capital. "If somebody told me five years ago I would be living in — and loving — Washington, D.C., I would have said they were crazy," says Lynda, who stars as a journalist in the CBS movie, Still-watch, (Feb. 10). "It's ex-citing to live there after so many years in Los Angeles. You can be pretty shortsighted, and have a narrow focus in L.A. that I don't have in Washington.
"It's a very different lifestyle compared to Los Angeles — high-speed, two or three-hour lunches. And a lot of business is done over cock-tails or at private posh dinner parties." Lynda couldn't be happier with married life.
"Robert is a straight-laced Washington lawyer, but he loves rock 'n' roll," she says. "I'm supportive of him, and he's supportive of me. I don't want to turn back at 60 and say, `I should have married that man, be-cause he was so great and I loved him but thought I needed to be independent.' Or I wished I had children and missed out, because you can't go back; it's not a dress rehearsal.
"For the first time in my life, I feel I can have fun, whereas before, the only fun I had was working. Now, awhole new arena has opened up for me in terms of security, having someone love you.
"Everyone wants to be loved, everyone wants to have someone to share experiences with, whether they're good or bad ones. And included in that relationship with a man, for me, is having a family, whether I adopt or have my own."
After the breakup of her five-yearmarriage to manager Ron Samuels in 1982, Lynda admits that she was wary of men: "I didn't feel I would never marry again. I just knew what I didn't want in a marriage — but I knew what kind of man I did want."
And she thinks love can be better the second time around: "Robert and I have a lot of fun, and he gives me my independence. He would stand up for me tooth and nail, but if I want tohandle something on my own, he'll back off.
"He doesn't have to hover over me all the time like I'm a possession. You've got to give people room, you can't rein them in so tight that the minute the gate is open, they bolt.
"That's what happens in lots of marriages. The strings become so tight that as soon as the gate opens it's a case of, 'I'm out of here!' "
Despite her vow to work less and play more, Lynda still loves filming. "I'm not making sacrifices to be married," she says. "I'm certainly not giving up my career. But I'm planning it so I can spend time in Washington.
"I just want to have fun, to love and be loved, and to have a good career. I don't think that's too much to ask."
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