This past weekend marked the end of five years of regular performance for Celine Dion. The singer known to be one of the biggest reasons that some people spend so much time in Las Vegas is retiring from her near-daily performances and doing something a little closer to home: being a mom. Of course, she's been a mom for years since she gave birth to a boy in 2001 after successful in vitro fertilization. But her break from the Vegas stage will give her a chance to be even more actively involved in the life of the child that she worked so hard to bring into this world.
Celine Dion has had both good and bad press for her Vegas performances over the years. This isn't surprising considering the amount of money that was invested in bringing her to the Vegas stage. Specifically the stage that was created specifically for her over at Caesar's Palace on the Vegas Strip; it cost nearly $100 million to build. Negative reviews in the press frequently cited Dion's difficulty in balancing her performances with being an active mom.
Back in 2005, Dion got additional press by bringing attention to her infertility issues again. She reported that she had frozen embryos waiting to be implanted into her after she was done with her Vegas shows. (Read more about this here and here.) It's unclear whether Dion plans to stick with the plan to bring a second child into the world using IVF. What is known is that she has world tour dates planned for the next year so although she's going to be playing Mommy, she's also going to be busier than your average stay-at-home-mom.
Question of the Day: How closely have you followed the celebrity IVF news that Celine Dion has brought to the spotlight?
