OSCAR CURSE

Oscar winning actress Sandra Bullock found out last week that her husband had an affair with a woman for about 11 months. Shortly before the news broke, she moved out of the family house. Since news hit the media, people have been kicking around ideas of an Oscar curse because many of the women that have won Best Actress Oscars (Kate Winslet, Halle Berry, Charlize Theron) are no longer with their husbands.

I, however, don’t believe there is any curse. I think it takes a lot of hard work and determination to win an Academy Award. So much so, that sometimes relationships suffer. We, as women, would like to think that the world has evolved to where we can go out and achieve while our men are able to stay home and take care of everything else. Unfortunately, I think experience is showing time and time again that doesn’t work. The truth is relationships are about as much work as careers and when we devote so much time to the careers sometimes are personal relationships suffer (occasionally without our knowing it).

Do you think there’s an Oscar curse?