Celine Dion

42 year old superstar, Celine Dion and her 68 year old husband and manager, Rene Angelil are expecting twins. Kim Jakwerth, who is Celine Dion’s U.S. publicist, confirmed that the Quebecois chanteuse is 14 week pregnant.

People.com first reported the story on Sunday, May 30. Rene Angelil told People: We’re 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.”

Celine underwent six in-virto fertilzation treatments to achieve this happy result. Ms. Dion previously suffered a miscarriage and attempted to become pregnant without success.

Celine and Rene have a 9 year old son, Rene-Charles who was born on January 25, 2001.

Earlier this year, Celine Dion told Oprah Winfrey that she and her husband wanted Rene-Charles to have a brother or a sister. Now Rene-Charles will be getting two siblings.

Celine is supposed to find out the gender of the twins next month. We don’t know if they will be identical twins or fraternal twins, but we do know how to say that in French: les jumeaux identiques ou les jumeaux fraternels.

We also don’t know at this point if the birth of Celine’s twins — which by counting on our fingers, we figure to be sometime in November 2010 –will impact plans she previously announced. Back in February, she told People she will be living in Las Vegas for 3 years and performing 70 shows a year at Caesar’s Palace beginning March 15, 2011. Her show would feature both her own songs and songs from classic Hollywood films. She also was said be to working on two new French and English albums.

All that may seem a little taxing with two little infants entering the picture.

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