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Lynda Carter Shares Her Biggest Life Lesson: “Don’t Marry the First Person That Proposes to You!” (EXCLUSIVE)

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8 years ago

April 12, 2018

Closer Staff

BEVERLY HILLS, CA - MARCH 22: Actress Lynda Carter attends the 2018 Simon Wiesenthal Center National Tribute Dinner Honoring Leslie Moonves at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on March 22, 2018 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Tara Ziemba/Getty Images)

Actress Lynda Carter, also known as Wonder Woman, exclusively told Closer Weekly in a new interview what advice she would give her 20-year-old self.

"Don’t marry the first person that proposes to you!" said Lynda, whose first marriage to producer Ron Samuels lasted only from 1977 to 1982. "He was a lot older, and I was just stupid."

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Lynda with her husband and their two kids.

Now 66, Lynda has been happily married to lawyer Robert Altman since 1984. "He makes me laugh," Lynda told Closer. "When I get into my minutia, he brings me off the edge!" She’s passed along a sense of fun to their two kids.

"Everyone sees her as so regal, glamorous and beautiful," daughter Jessica Altman, 27, told Closer. "But she is the goofiest, silliest human being by far that I’ve ever met in my entire life."

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