Lynda Carter’s Wonder Woman Costume Has A Lot More To It Than You Think

Published on 02/24/2022
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She Hated How They Sexualized Her

The actress Lynda Carter’s portrayal of the superheroine gained a wide audience. However, the truth is that she did not appreciate the excessive focus on her attractiveness. She went into extensive depth about this in an interview with Us Weekly in 1980. Carter said: “I never meant to be a sexual object for anyone but my husband.”

She Hated How They Sexualized Her

She Hated How They Sexualized Her

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The Actress Put Up With A Lot

“I never thought a picture of my body would be tacked up in men’s bathrooms,” she explained, “I hate men looking at me and thinking what they think. And I know what they think. They write and tell me.” Worse, she noticed a peephole in one of the dressing rooms. The individual who was in charge of this was terminated. Lynda Carter commented on her experiences with sexual harassment as an actress in 2018. She shared the following with The Daily Beast in light of the #MeToo movement: “I fended off my share [of unwanted attention, and] I’ve been afraid. [But] if a man tried something, I would say, ‘Are you kidding me?’… We were women’s lib, burn the bra. We weren’t going to take any **** from people.”

The Actress Put Up With A Lot

The Actress Put Up With A Lot

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