IVY Lee isn't the only one who has contemplated moving overseas for her husband.

Local ex-actresses such as Zheng Wanling and Carole Lin have also left our sunny island in the name of love.

Carole Lin

The Price Of Peace star quit last year after 13 years in showbiz when she married a Frenchman. She now lives with her husband in Versailles, a wealthy suburb of Paris.

Zeng Huifen

After 11 years in showbiz, the veteran actress packed her bags in 1997 and left with her oil rig engineer husband and two children to set up home in the US. The star of Samsui Women made the move to accommodate her husband's posting to his company's head office in Texas.

Zheng Wanling

Her husband was then Panama's ambassador to South Africa. So Wanling moved to South Africa in 1998.

She left her full-time job as an actress when she became pregnant with her daughter, Monique, now 10. The family has since moved to Panama.

This article was first published in The New Paper.