"Look at Rene. I have never seen him look like that in all the years I have known him! He is not just proud, he is bursting with pride. Have you seen my son yet, isn't he beautiful? My son! What a beautiful phrase, it makes me tingle every time I say it."

Although in the past Celine has been very much a career woman, she is all ready to let her singing take a back seat to motherhood. There will still be albums, but world tours, previously such a joy to the French-Canadian singer, will be put on the backburner as she gets to know the little person she carried for nine months.

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