Lynda Carter is an American icon, having starred as the original Wonder Woman in the hit 1970s
live-action series Wonder Woman.
The actress also gained fame as a pageant queen, spokesmodel, and musician whose likability
never wavered.
Carter has been largely absent from the screen scene in recent decades, emerging here and
there for her famous eyewear commercials.
However, while the world wasn't looking, Carter was raising her own mini-me in the form of
her daughter, Jessica Altman.
Jessica is the second child of Carter and her husband, attorney Robert Altman, and she's
grown up to be just as stunning as her mother.
While she does seem to have a lot in common with her famous mom, she's also carved out
her very own identity.
Let's take a closer look at what we know about Lynda Carter's daughter.
Leaving La La Land
Carter wed her manager, Ron Samuels, in 1977, during the heyday of her career, but the pair
divorced in 1982.
She went on to wed Robert Altman, an attorney based in Washington, D.C., in 1984, opting
to step away from the limelight to pursue a more fulfilling personal life away from
the glitz and glam of Tinseltown.
As she told People magazine,
"I had a large body of work already, and I didn't really have a lot of substance in my
life."
That substance arrived in the form of her two bundles of joy: son James and daughter
Jessica.
She wrote in a 2018 Mother's Day tribute on Instagram, "Turns out my greatest adventure
of all was becoming a mom.
And I have loved every minute of it."
Born with it
Though Carter's daughter wasn't raised as your typical Hollywood kid and hasn't actively
pursued a showbiz career, Jessica has shown herself to be quite comfortable in the spotlight,
looking radiant at red carpet events alongside her mother.
Perhaps the reason she's not shy about all those flashing lights is because she knows
first-hand that when the cameras are gone, people are still people.
When speaking about her iconic mother to Yahoo!
Entertainment, Jessica said,
"Everyone sees her as so regal, glamorous, and beautiful, but she is the goofiest, silliest
human being by far that I've ever met in my entire life."
"She loves hearing stories about how people were struggling through cancer and someone
gave them a Wonder Woman cape and it made them feel empowered."
Like father, like daughter
Although their mother's name might be more well-known, Jessica and her brother, James,
have both followed in the footsteps of their father and pursued careers in law.
James attended George Washington University Law School, his father's alma mater, and Jessica
earned both her undergraduate degree in psychology and her law degree at the University of Michigan.
She eventually accepted a position at the Washington, D.C. law firm Gibson Dunn and,
as of September 2018, she works as an associate attorney in the firm's litigation department.
Moments with Mom
Carter is a celebrated singer-songwriter whose first album, a soft rock project called Portrait,
debuted in 1978.
Since her children have grown up, she's become more prolific with her music, releasing several
new albums since 2009.
And while her daughter may be an up-and-coming lawyer by trade, it appears Jessica has also
inherited some of her mother's entertainment skills.
Carter often posts pictures of her daughter on social media that showcase the two ladies
sharing a mic, and Jessica has also been known to join her mother on stage during her concert
tour stops.
Jessica even took time out of studying for law school finals to sing a duet with her
mama during a show in New York in 2016.
And she spent her 26th birthday in the recording studio with her mom, adding her vocals to
her mother's 2018 album, Red Rock N' Blues.
Model daughter
Jessica has also inherited Carter's beauty, and has joined her mom in front of the camera
in recent years.
The two appeared together in a shoot promoting Peter Alexander's Mother's Day pajama campaign,
which celebrated moms as the real-life superheroes of the world.
Carter had a blast posing with her daughter, telling Mumbrella,
"As a woman and mother, there was nothing I loved more than being able to celebrate
Mother's Day with someone so passionate about life and work, and having my daughter alongside
me for this shoot was an added joy!"
Although it was Altman's first professional photo shoot, she looked like a natural on
camera and called the experience "unbelievable."
The good life
She may not lead the kind of public life that other children of famous actors and actresses
do, but if her jet-setting adventures on Instagram are any indication, Carter's daughter still
seems to enjoy quite a charmed existence.
Jessica's social media feed is peppered with photos from around the world that prove she's
got quite an impressive batch of passport stamps.
Who needs Hollywood when you can go anywhere in the world at the drop of a stylish hat?
For Jessica, it appears she doesn't need to pursue fame to enjoy the finer things in life,
a lesson she no doubt learned from her wise wonder of a mom.