The Oscar Curse: Is Sandra Bullock the Latest Star to Get Hit?

March 18, 2010 — -- They win and then they lose. Their husbands, that is.

Just two weeks after taking home the best actress Oscar for her role in "The Blind Side," People magazine is reporting that Sandra Bullock has moved out of the Southern California home she shares with husband Jesse James just days before tabloid reports surfaced that they are having marital troubles.

People reports that Bullock left on Monday. She also abruptly pulled out of the London premiere for "Blind Side."

In a statement released to People magazine on Wednesday, Bullock wrote, "Due to unforeseen personal reasons, a trip abroad to support 'The Blind Side' has been deemed impossible at this time. I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused and thank you for your continued support of the film."

Messages left for representatives of Bullock and James were not immediately returned.

According to an article in In Touch magazine, a model who had hoped to work for James' company, West Coast Choppers, said she had an affair with James, much of which occurred while Bullock, 45, was filming "The Blind Side."

Bullock isn't alone. Several other Oscar-winning actresses have had the similar misfortune of having their personal lives unravel as their acting careers flourished.

"The Oscar curse is that, more often than not, once a woman wins an Oscar, her romantic life falls apart," said Bradley Jacobs, a senior editor at Us Weekly magazine. "We've seen it happen repeatedly in the past ten years."

Earlier this week, Kate Winslet and husband Sam Mendes announced that after seven years of marriage, they were divorcing.

Mendes, an Oscar-winning director for 1999's "American Beauty" and Winslet, who won the Academy Award in 2009 for her role in "The Reader," were not seen together at this year's awards. But in her acceptance speech in 2009, Winslet said she was "lucky to have a wonderful husband and two beautiful children who let me do what I love and who love me just the way that I am."

Winslet and Mendes split two years after they worked together on "Revolutionary Road," a film about a couple in an unsatisfying marriage.