LYNDA
CARTER
WASHINGTON’S OWN
WONDER WOMAN
KEEPS IT REAL
BY JENNY PETERS
W
hen it comes to choosing a place to hang your tiara and silver
lasso, the original Wonder Woman knows there’s no place like home
— the home that she’s made with her husband and children for more
than 30 years.
“I love Washington. I’ve lived here longer than I’ve lived any other
place and I just love it,” Lynda Carter reveals during a recent
conversation with us at #FlyWashington. And the longtime Potomac
resident wasn’t just telling us what we wanted to hear, for Carter made
a conscious choice to put the less-appealing parts of Hollywood behind
her not long after “Wonder Woman,” her groundbreaking television
series based on the female DC Comics superhero went off the airwaves
back in 1979.
“My [new] husband wasn’t moving to L.A.,” she recalled in a recent
People Magazine interview of her decision to move east in 1985. “He
was a Washington, D.C. power lawyer, he was working with Fortune
100 companies and doing all this amazing stuff. And I was happy to get
out of L.A. — I needed substance in my life.”
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