“There is a part of Wonder Woman inside me and inside every woman, kind of that secret self that women share. "It is less about super powers and more about heart and intellect, and a sense of right and wrong. “Wonder Woman remains popular because it wasn’t about brawn, it was about brains. “I couldn’t wait to get up in the morning and get to work. Wonder Woman transformed her life, paying her $1,500 an episode, and $1million for the second season. “I never considered quitting acting but I was trying to figure out how I was going to pay the rent, and would have to get a regular job,” she says. Lynda moved to Hollywood but struggled to find work as an actress and was down to her last $25 when she won the role of Wonder Woman. "It was all so silly, wearing a crown and banner when it was the 1970s and women’s liberation was everywhere.
"Then I was Miss USA and had to have a chaperone, and spent a year opening supermarkets. “I’d been singing since I was 14 and on the road since high school, and I was very independent. “I didn’t really enjoy it that much,” she says. “I didn’t intend to become a beauty queen and only entered as a lark,” she says.īut in the space of 20 days she was crowned Miss Phoenix, Miss Arizona, and became Miss USA, heading to the Miss World contest in London in 1972. Lynda, who became the world’s highest-paid TV actress during her five years playing Wonder Woman in the 1970s, has overcome stigma before: after becoming a beauty queen, and then after being stereotyped as a TV comic-book heroine. “Addiction feels so shameful but it really is a disease, and if you have got the gene that turns it on, it is devastating. "The disease has taken over, it is not a matter of having will-power. Astonishingly, her features show no sign of the ravages of her past battles with booze and the traumatic break-up of her first marriage, though the emotional scars run deep.
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