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Date and Issue: Number 3 / 1977.
• Lynda Carter was born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona, and is the daughter of a well-to-do an tique dealer whom she affectionately refers to as ''a junkman like Sanford and Son:" As Lynda re calls her years at Arcadia High School, she remembers feeling painfully out of place. "I was taller than all the boys except the tackles on the football team, and all my girlfriends were 5'3" blondes. I even was rejected as a pompom girl because I towered over everyone else!"
Lynda sought refuge from her height problems in singing les-Vinsand writing music and was hired by, a folk group when she ,was just 15. This led her to-other singing groups and she toured the U.S. with them for three years after graduating from high school. However, her singing career was not a tremendous success.
She returned to Phoenix and not expecting much to come of it, entered a beauty contest. Her long dark hair, hypnotic eyes and 6' curvaceous figure enabled her to beat the local competition easily. She went on to become Miss World U.S.A. and lost out only to Miss Australia in the Miss World pageant.
Winning beauty contests gave Lynda the confidence she needed to go about studying to become an actress. She used her media exposure from the beauty contest to help her career get off to a start, but she did not rely on her beauty alone. Studying with acting coaches in L.A. and New York, she soon. began landing guest spots on TV and made her movie debut in Billie Jo and The Outlaw with Marjoe Gortner.
Luckily for Lynda, Warners and ABC were searching for an actress "built like a javelin thrower, but with the sweet face of a Mary Tyler Moore" to star as Wonder Woman . Lynda turned out to be perfect for the role, and from the ratings accumulated so far, it's obvious audiences love her. Wonder Woman has gone from a special to a mini-series and may be a regular weekly series by the time you read this.
So far success has not gone to Lynda's head, however. She is an incurable romantic, much like , the comic strip character she brings to life so well. She loves doing the series because of its optimistic message.
"I am convinced that people are starved for happy endings," she says. "I would like to think that this show is giving them some positive input, something to believe in. We've become so disillusioned as a nation that we're demoralized."
'Lynda has done research on World War II and believes that people were more together then.
"Maybe we'll find those values again by seeing things through Wonder Woman's eyes. Who knows? She might-succeed where others have failed," Lynda said brightly.
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