MONTREAL — After a widely reported miscarriage and several unsuccessful in-vitro fertilization procedures, Quebec chanteuse Celine Dion’s dream of having another child has come true.
Dion’s U.S. publicist Kim Jakwerth confirmed to The Canadian Press on Sunday that the singer is 14 weeks pregnant with twins.
Jakwerth said Dion and her husband, Rene Angelil, plan to find out the sex of the babies next month.
The pregnancy was first reported by People magazine.
The weekly quoted Angelil as saying the 42-year-old singer is ecstatic.
“Celine is just hoping for a healthy pregnancy. She was hoping for one baby and the news that we are having two is a double blessing.”
According to the story posted on People’s website, Dion became pregnant with twins after undergoing her sixth in-vitro fertilization treatment.
The couple have been trying for a while for a second child.
Dion confirmed the couple’s desire for a brother or sister for her nine-year-old son, Rene-Charles, on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” earlier this year.
“We tried four times to have a child, we’re still trying,” she told the talk-show queen at the time.
Dion took a recent break from touring to have a second child through in-vitro fertilization.
The superstar performer even missed the Quebec premier of her new movie, “Celine: Through the Eyes of the World”, and the opening of the Vancouver Olympics because she was in a U.S. hospital trying to conceive.
But the news may put a damper on her career plans — Dion is slated to return to Las Vegas for a new show starting in March 2011, based on classic Hollywood romance movies.