In
1976, she appeared topless in a low-budget movie, "Bobbie Jo and
the Outlaw," and when she became famous, men's magazines published
stop frames of her chest. Carter doesn't think about that part of
her past much now. She credits motherhood with giving her life a
new perspective: "It gives you new depth to what you feel, and you
can pull up from that and put it on the screen into any situation.
But people think you're dead if you're not on TV for a year or
two. I'm hoping the public will welcome me back, that they can
still watch me. But I'm beyond all the ego stuff now. I have
substance in my personal life, and now I want that in my
professional life. The fame and the money don't matter any more." |