- Céline Dion and her late husband, René Angélil, had three children together.
- Dion’s eldest son, René-Charles Angélil, is 23 and pursuing a career in music.
- The singer also has 14-year-old fraternal twin boys named Nelson and Eddy.
Céline Dion is a five-time Grammy winner, a global icon, and a proud mother.
The “My Heart Will Go On” singer has three children with her late husband, René Angélil, who died of throat cancer in 2016.
“What makes me most proud is to be a mother,” Dion told Extra in 2017. “To be honest, they’re remarkable. They are helping me. I am helping them — it’s mutual,” she added.
Here’s everything you need to know about Dion’s three kids.
René-Charles Angélil, 23, is the eldest child.
Dion gave birth to René-Charles in Florida on January 25, 2001, and the couple named him after his father. As the famous singer’s first child, he was automatically in the spotlight.
During an appearance on James Corden’s “Carpool Karaoke” segment in 2019, Dion recalled the media frenzy when she gave birth.
She saw her doctor on TV announcing the birth of her child right after delivery. “And I’m saying to myself, ‘My baby is on television, and I didn’t even hold him yet,'” she said.
At his father’s funeral in 2016, 14-year-old René-Charles gave a touching speech. A few months later, the teen surprised Dion by presenting her with the Icon Award at the 2016 Billboard Music Awards.
In 2018, René-Charles started releasing rap and R&B music under the stage name Big Tip.
When René-Charles released his first EP in 2021 under the name RC Angélil, his mother posted on X, then Twitter, “I’m so proud of my son. My love for him is so strong, and it touches me deeply that one of his passions is also one of mine.”
At the 2024 Grammys in February, René-Charles escorted Dion onstage as she presented the award for album of the year to Taylor Swift. Mother and son also posed with Swift backstage.
Dion’s fraternal twins, Nelson and Eddy, are 14 years old.
In a 2010 episode of “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” Dion talked about the difficulties she had becoming pregnant again. She underwent several rounds of in vitro fertilization and had a miscarriage.
“We tried four times to have a child,” she said. “We’re still trying. We’re on the fifth try. And I tell you, if five is my lucky number, this fifth try has got to come in.”
Dion gave birth to Nelson and Eddy via C-section in Florida on October 23, 2010. Their names were inspired by former South African President Nelson Mandela and the French songwriter Eddy Marnay, who worked on several of Dion’s albums.
“They have very different personalities, but both of them love to wake up first thing in the morning and go to their closet and decide what they will wear,” she said of her twins in a 2013 interview with the Daily Mail.
All three of Dion’s kids continue to be supportive of their mom on and off the stage.
Back in 2019, they joined her onstage during the final night of her Las Vegas residency. In 2023, the family attended a hockey game together. The outing marked Dion’s first major public appearance since sharing in 2022 that she was diagnosed with stiff person syndrome.
Recently, she’s had to explain to her sons how to deal with an emergency related to her illness because she may not be able to speak. “As a mother, first of all, talk to your kids. Let them know that you will not die,” she told TODAY’s Hoda Kotb in June.
This story was originally published on February 5, 2024, and updated on December 12, 2024.
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