Celine Dion is undoubtedly an international superstar.
Time has flown since that firstwhirlwind pregnancy, and Rene-Charles is all grown up heturned 20in January 2021.
And there’s still plenty interesting about him.
Compounded with that were her husband Rene Angelil’s own medical issues.
He wasdiagnosedwith cancer in 1998 and was thus undergoing chemotherapy and radiation, forcing them tofreezesome of his sperm.
However, his sperm count was apparently already too low for standard IVF (in-vitro fertilization) treatment.
After a specialized procedure known as intracytoplasmic sperm injection, Dion finally completed a successful pregnancy.
Rene-Charles Angelil was born in Palms West Hospital in Loxahatchee, Fla. on Jan. 25, 2001.
According to David Foster, a record producer and close family friend, it was a long-awaited joy.
“This was their dream,” he toldPeople.
“It’s bigger than any hit record, bigger than anything for them.”
Dion is the youngest of 14 kids.
“We were safe and warm and taken care of.
Three or four of us in the same bed was normal to us,” Dion toldVanity Fair.
“We were given love and affection and support.
What else did we need?”
Dion’s sister Liette toldPeople, “[Celine] won’t be seeing much of her little boy.
Everyone will want to hold him!”
Canada(viaThe Daily Mail).
“He was an amazing trooper.
Very sensitive,” Dion said toOprahmagazine.
“For every trial, he was with us emotionally.”
However, he was hilariously less than impressed with his new siblings when they finally arrived.
However, it looks like he eventually came around to the value of family.
Celine’sInstagramis full of loving photos of the entire family together.
The articles constantly asked why Celine Dion let her sons grow their hair so long.
That was just the first sign of the public’s bafflement with the Dion parenting style.
The internet responded with itsusual tact, but Dion didn’t and still doesn’t seem to care.
In 2018 she launched her gender-neutral line of children’s clothing,Celinununu.
As she toldCNN, she was inspired by her experiences raising Rene-Charles and the twins.
“I thought they were going to go for the big superheroes.
They were looking at princesses.
And they all wanted to be Minnie Mouse,” she said.
Because they’re talking, they’re finding themselves."
Rene-Charles was able to grow up without a hard focus on gender expectations.
Thus, when it was ever a choice between family and fame, she always chose the former.
She made sure Rene-Charles and his brothers got to have as much of a normal upbringing as possible.
Rene-Charles likely didn’t have to suffer through sharing one bathroom with all of them, though!
He underwent surgery to remove the tumor in winter of that year, but the cancer did not subside.
For the last two years of his life, he would eat through afeeding tubewith steadily declining health.
At the time, Rene-Charles was still just a young teenager.
Celine opened up about her son’s experience toUs Weekly.
“When he was younger he knew his dad was older but they bonded a lot.
I’m sure it’s hard for him.”
Rene Angelil sadlypassed awayat the age of 73 on Jan. 14, 2016.
Rene-Charles gave theeulogyat his own father’s funeral, demonstrating strength and maturity at such a young age.
A normal sports-focused teen
Despite his celebrity parents, Rene-Charles grew into a pretty average teenage boy.
Outside of that, he seems to enjoyhanging outwith his friends just like any other teen.
“He’s a wonderful young man.
As mentioned before, he was a part of his local hockey team.
Off the ice, though, he also enjoyed watching the sport.
There’s a shoutout to Rene-Charles and his mom from the Canadian professional hockey player P.K.
Subban onInstagram, where he says that Dion is a “big Habs fan.”
It looks like Rene-Charles gets a lot of love from mom when it comes to his own hockey endeavors.
She’s even sporting a jersey with his name and number on it.
It’s beyond adorable.
According toRene-Charles' eulogy, his departed father also had a love of the sport.
It looks like this is one family tradition that’s still going strong.
He speaks French
If only all of us grew up with the bilingual upbringing that Rene-Charles had.
He also began hismoving eulogyfor his father in French.
It all makes perfect sense, though, given his parents' French-Canadian heritage.
Not to mention, his mother’s native tongue is French.
At first she could onlyspeak a littleEnglish.
She didn’t speak hardly any English at all at that point.”
Since then, she has released several albums in both English and French.
However, it looks like Rene-Charles did not have to go through that same struggle.
Clearly, they all grew up in a two-languagehousehold.
Rene-Charles already has a leg up on most Americans.
Perhaps he can become a real renaissance man in the years to come.
He attended the Billboard Music Awards in 2016, giving his mom the Icon Award in asurprise appearance.
While witnessing his mom’s emotional performance, he managed to rub elbows with other celebrities likeRihanna.
A year later he returned to the 2017 Billboard Music Awards and meet up with even more stars.
He met up with thepopular band BTSafter they had just won the award for Top Social Artist.
Then, in August 2018, he took a snapshot with rapper Post Malone andKhalidat theOsheaga Music Festivalin Montreal.
He clearly doesn’t mind taking advantage of his position to hang with his favorite artists.
Keeping dad’s memory alive
As mentioned before, Rene-Charles gave theeulogyat his father’s funeral.
The speech shows nothing but love and strength in the face of tragedy.
“You left me now with enough good memories of you to share with my younger brothers.
The whole Angelil family appears to have kept this promise and keeps Rene’s memory alive every single day.
A budding rap career
The music gene continues to be strong in the Dion family.
The covers hit No.
1 and two of the Canadian Soundcloud R&Bchartsfor that week.
He quickly shared his success with mom.
“I played it to her for the first time (Wednesday),” he told theMontreal Gazette.
“I just felt like keeping it on the low.
But she loved it.
She was just kind of stunned at first, because she’d never heard anything from me.”
But I wanted to prove to myself that I’m able to do it.
Not just because my mom is who my mom is.”
There’s no telling where his very young career will go.
Like countless of other parents before her, Celine worries for his future.
Mama bear instincts aside, she trusts him enough to make good decisions.
But I’m very, very proud of him!"
Less than a month later,Casino.5debuted on January 11.
PAKKA)" and “LV,” all in Rene-Charles’s unique hip-hop styling.
In keeping with his super-cool new image, Rene-Charles also adopted the moniker “RC Angelil.”
His mother, however, seems to have always called him RC.
