Secret Revealed: Winning an Oscar for Best Actress is a heartbreak

WINNING an Oscar should be the greatest moment of any film star's life. But picking up the Best Actress gong - as Sandra Bullock has just done - is often followed by heartbreak.

Kate Winslet's separation from husband Sam Mendes after six years came within a year of her scooping the Academy Award for The Reader. And many others have suffered The Curse of the Best Actress Oscar.

Let us see what recent winners said of their partners in their victory speeches - and how quickly they split after the Oscar ceremony.That was really quick..Here's the list..

Kate Winslet

FEBRUARY 22, 2009: "I am so 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."

MARCH 2010: Announced split.

ON winning the Oscar for her performance in The Reader, 34-year-old Kate paid glowing tribute to "my very own Sam".

However, the cracks in her six-year marriage to 44-year-old Brit film director Sam Mendes - himself an Oscar winner for American Beauty - were beginning to appear.

Reese Witherspoon

MARCH 5, 2006: "I want to say thank you to my wonderful husband."

NOVEMBER 2006: Filed for divorce.

MEETING on the set of hit flick Cruel Intentions, Reese and actor Ryan Phillippe married in 1999 and had two children together.

They were once seen as the golden couple of Hollywood but she filed for divorce in November 2006.

Hilary Swank

FEBRUARY 27, 2005: "I am going to start by thanking my husband because I'd like to think I've learned from past mistakes. Chad, you're my everything - thank you for your support. It means the world."

JANUARY 2006: Split.

Winning a gong in 2000 for Boys Don't Cry, the 35-year-old star famously forgot to thank hubby Chad Lowe.

Both she and Chad, 42, also an actor, spent years constantly answering questions about the "snub".

Charlize Theron

FEBRUARY 29, 2004: "I have to thank my incredible partner in crime. You are one hell of a partner to have. Thank you so much for standing by me."

JANUARY 2010: Split.

SHE and Irish actor Stuart Townsend ended their nine-year relationship in January - almost six years after she picked up the Best Actress trophy for her acclaimed turn as a serial killer in Monster.

After being announced as the winner on that night, Charlize, now 34, had a lingering snog with Stuart, 37, before stepping up to the podium and praising him to the rafters.The pair never married because Charlize refused to wed until same-sex couples were given the same privilege in the US.

The couple split in January this year, with both removing their commitment rings.

Halle Berry

MARCH 24, 2002: "My husband, who is the joy of my life, and India - thank you for giving me peace.

OCTOBER 2003: Split.

HALLE made history in 2002 by becoming the first black star to win the Best Actress Oscar.And when she picked up the gong for Monster's Ball, her singer husband Eric Benet was by her side.

However, 18 months later, she separated from him after he allegedly cheated on her.Halle is now happily married to third hubby, 34-year-old model Gabriel Aubry, and they have a two-year-old daughter, Nahla Ariela.

Helen Hunt

MARCH 23, 1998: Thanked partner Hank - "The very best man I know."

JUNE 2000: Split.

AFTER landing the Best Actress Oscar in 1998 for As Good As It Gets, she thanked her other half, Hank Azaria - most famous for his voice work in The Simpsons.

At first their relationship looked as good as it gets and they tied the knot the following year in a ceremony at their unfinished California home in front of around 100 guests.

But by June 2000, 45-year-old Hank had moved out of the house and into a Bel-Air hotel, where he checked in under a false name. Six months later Helen, 46, filed for divorce, citing "irreconcilable differences" - but insisted that the pair still remained "good friends".

Gwyneth Paltrow

MARCH 21, 1999: Thanked "my friend Ben Affleck".

MAY 1999: Split.

GWYNETH'S Oscar speech lives on for more than just her tears after she picked up her statuette for Shakespeare In Love.

By thanking "my friend Ben Affleck", the notoriously private actress confirmed to the world that they were an item.Ben, 37, starred alongside her in the hit film. But just two months after the awards they broke up.

Julia Roberts

MARCH 25, 2001: Simply thanked "Benjamin Bratt"

JUNE 2001: Split.

THE star was accompanied by boyfriend Benjamin Bratt when she picked up the Oscar for Erin Brockovich. But they quickly parted ways.In her speech she merely thanked "Benjamin Bratt", as well as the rest of her friends and family.

Looking at Curvy women = excitement from drinking beer

For millions of women fretting about their weight the news will be a huge relief, men prefer a curvier figure.

From recent research, the effect on the male brain of a shapely woman is, apparently, comparable with that of beer and brandy. Figures such as Beyonce's also light up the male brain in the same way as illegal drugs.

The caucasian, westernised female has somehow been duped into thinking men like very skinny, waify, Kate Moss-type girls (below). Curviness is the trump card.

Researchers in Georgia, in the U.S., scanned the brains of 14 young men as they looked at before and after pictures of nude women who had plastic surgery to give them more shapely hips and bottoms.

Seeing the post-operative shots excited the brain's 'reward centres' - regions more usually activated by drink and drugs.

High waist to hip ratios - or hourglass figures - proved particularly stimulating. this could be because wide hips have long been linked with good health - and the ability to carry healthy babies. Yes.."conservative thinking" (our granddad) believes this theory.

The moral from this research is simple

1) Look at curvy women when you want a beer (waste $ and health threatening)...

2) Why waste money to buy beer when curvy women give us the same excitement!!

3) I did not recommend this method to drug addicts because I believe they will R*** the curvy women after getting the excitement ;p

Ugliest Fish ever exist!!! Disgusting looks.

Ewww..This have to be the ugliest fish I ever see. They called this monster, blobfish and it has already acquired a reputation for looking sad. I really feel like smacking this fish if I did saw one.

The bloated bottom dweller, which can grow up to 12 inches, lives at depths of up to 800m, so it rarely seen by humans. Ugly creature should be keep away from us ;p But thanks to increased fishing, the fish is being dragged up with other catches.

Despite being unedible itself, the blobfish lives at the same depths as other more appetising ocean organisms, including crab and lobster.

To remain buoyant, the flesh of the blobfish is primarily a gelatinous mass with a density slightly less than water; this allows the fish to float above the sea floor without expending energy on swimming. The relative lack of muscle is not a disadvantage as it primarily swallows edible matter that floats by in front of it.

Snake eating its own tail, too hungry perhaps?

A pet snake got itself in a bit of a bind after it mistook its own tail for a tasty dinner.

Reggie the King snake soon realised his mistake after chomping down on his back end but then couldn't release himself after his teeth had taken hold.

Luckily the hungry reptile's owner arrived on the scene before the snake began to digest its own body, and rushed him to the vet.

The snake had also dislocated its jaw in its attempt to get its mouth around the tail.

Mr Reynolds was able to gently untangle Reggie by prising its jaws open a little wider and sliding the teeth off the flesh using a probe. The whole operation took only half an hour.

'There is a temptation for a snake-eater like this one to lunge at its own tail, especially if kept in a small enclosure. They can't spread themselves out and think their tails are another snake

Luckily the tip of the 18-year-old snake's tail hadn't entered its stomach so it hadn't come to any harm. All Reggie was left nursing was perhaps wounded pride.

Use 'Tummy Tubs' to stop your baby crying. Proven it Works!

Special 'Tummy Tubs' are designed to make babies feel snug and secure.

Babies like to be confined, they are used to it. The tub provides the baby a foetal position and they feel so at home. It's particularly good if they're colicky.'

Because of the smaller surface area, the water in a Tummy Tub (which should initially be at body temperature) stays warm for much longer, so infants can stay in the tub for up to 15 minutes.

But then, one couldn't get away with just dunking their child into the mop bucket. It won't work. That was because this is a Special Tummy Tubs!

It have a rounded shape that makes them more comfortable, and there's also an anti-skid rubber ring on the bottom to stop them from flying across the floor.
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Mafia hitman strikes outside a Naples bar

This is the chilling moment a Mafia boss is gunned down by a hitman outside a bar.

His attacker then stands over him and finishes him off with a single shot to the back of the head before strolling away.

Police in Naples, where the local Mafia are known as the Camorra, released the CCTV footage to try to catch the hitman. They believe the killing of Mario Bacio Terracino , 53, was part of a feud with a rival gang over the control of lucrative drug trafficking network.

Tarracino is seen smoking a cigarette outside a bar in the central Sanita neighborhood. The killer enters the bar, where there are at least six people, then emerges and shoots Tarracino at point blank range.

When Tarracino falls on the ground, the killer finishes him off with a bullet to the head.None of the bystanders moves a finger, although it is hard to say if that is from genuine indifference or fear of retaliation.

A woman is seen rubbing off her scratch-and-win lottery card as Tarracino is killed in front of her. A cigarette-seller moves his stall a few meters down the road, while a man holding a toddler in his arms looks at the victim and walks away.

A woman counting change in her purse jumps in shock at the sound of the gunshot and turns to see the killer calmly walking away. He was even said to be smiling.