The once fertility-challenged pop singer gave birth to a baby boy, weighing six pounds and three ounces, Thursday morning in Palm Beach, Florida. Dion's publicist says the mom and her new bundle of joy, named Rene Charles (after the singer's manager-husband), are doing well.
"Celine Dion and Rene Angelil have the great joy of announcing to you that their son was born during the night of January 25 at 1 a.m. [ET]. The mother and the baby are doing just great and are in perfect health."
Dion, 32, and Angelil, 59, had been trying for some time to have a child together, a point well documented in the tabloids. Early last year, the French-Canadian singer sued the National Enquirer for $20 million over a false story that claimed she was pregnant with twins. The tab later retracted the story and apologized.
Last May, Dion underwent in-vitro fertilization, and the procedure worked: The singer initially expected to give birth around Valentine's Day.
Dion, the voice behind tunes like "My Heart Will Go On" and "Beauty and the Beast," also said in a televised interview that a second kid may be in the couple's future. Dion said she has another embryo conceived with Angelil in storage at a New York clinic.
"So, I have a twin," she said, "...a laboratory twin." The singer explained that while the two embryos are technically called twins, it doesn't mean identical twins, only that they were "conceived at the same time."
A year before her pregnancy, Dion announced she was semi-retiring from the music biz to raise a family and spend time with Angelil, who was recovering from throat cancer. Angelil, who has managed Dion's career since she was a teenager, married her in 1994.