Celine Dion’s daily battles to be physically strong enough to open the Olympics: The debilitating and incurable Stiff Person Syndrome, which Star described as “feeling like someone is strangling you,” required Star to undergo excruciating treatment.

With Dion as her co-star, the 1992 Disney picture ‘Beauty and the Beast’ was a global number one hit and won both a Grammy and an Oscar for best original song.

Among all albums released in 1996, Falling Into You sold more copies than any other. The song “My Heart Will Go On” was part of the soundtrack of the 1998 blockbuster Titanic and went on to win an Academy Award for Best Original Song.

René, Dion’s manager and 26 years her older, was a source of private sorrow throughout their six-year battle to create a kid, even if her career was thriving at the time.

In 1999, René received the devastating news that he had throat cancer. The couple sought out in vitro fertilization as a means to delay radiation therapy.

René-Charles, Dion’s first son, was born in January 2001 after just one round of therapy. Dion said she was pregnant shortly after finishing her 2007 residency in Las Vegas. but she miscarried shortly after. She and René then decided to attempt in vitro fertilization again.