Tormented as a child and criticised for marrying the manager she met at 12, Celine Dion has found utter contentment in motherhood. But, she tells Chrissy Iley, it didn’t come easily.
Motherhood suits Celine Dion well. She believes it gives her emotional stability and makes her feel beautiful. Indeed, she seems to have undergone the ageing process in reverse. She started off looking rather geeky and launched a thousand jokes of, ‘Why the long face, Celine?’ But she’s not only grown into her features, she’s radiant.
When we meet she explains, in that quirky French-Canadian accent, that it’s her family who give her that glow, and if she hadn’t had her three boys – 12-year-old René-Charles and twins Nelson and Eddy, who’ve just celebrated their third birthday – not even her wildly successful career as the bestselling female artist of all time would have been enough to make her feel she’d accomplished all she could.
All her children were born through IVF, and not without great difficulty in the case of the twins, who were originally triplets until one died in her womb three months into her pregnancy. Although she’s 45 and her husband, René Angélil, 71, she’d like another child, a little girl to play with the three boys.
‘I don’t have to do any of this,’ she insists. She means performing and recording. Having already sold 200 million records she’s about to release a new album and is currently appearing at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, where me meet just after her stage show, which features a raging real-water storm for the Titanic number My Heart Will Go On.
When we’re face-to-face it’s 110ºF outside at midnight and hotter inside, because the air-conditioning isn’t working. She doesn’t complain.
‘I do it because I love to sing. I’ve worked hard for nearly 30 years and I feel like only now is it paying off in terms of happiness. But the only reward that would mean anything to me is my children. There’s nothing that can top being a mother. I would like more but I don’t know if it could happen. I want the twins and me to have quality time. It’s selfish to keep wanting more, although I would love a girl. Imagine all the shopping, the jewellery, the shoes, the dresses I could give to her.’
Source: Daily Mail
