Celine Dion and Rene Angelil met when she was only 12 years old after one of her siblings sent a recording of a song she wrote to the well-known Canadian music manager. Angelil took on Dion as a client, mortgaging his home to finance the launch of her career and taking her and her mother on tour to Japan and Europe, according to Good Housekeeping.
Because he was an adult, their relationship was platonic and professional for many years as he took her from Canadian and European fame to worldwide stardom. By the time Dion turned 19, their relationship developed into something else, and they went on a real date, beginning a romance that would lead to a more-than-two-decade marriage and three children. However, they initially kept their romantic relationship a secret for five years.
It wasn't until Dion released the record "The Color of My Love" that she shocked everyone in the album's liner notes by revealing whom she was in love with. After all, they were 26 years apart, and they worried for a long time what people would think (via Good Housekeeping), especially after Dion's mother vehemently objected to her daughter's choice in men. It didn't help that Angelil had been married before and had children.
However, when they finally decided to wed in 1994, they were Canada's top celebrity couple, and Dion wore a gown fit for a princess.
