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Battle of the 13-year-old divas on ‘X Factor’

Carly Rose Sonenclar talks to the judges on “The X Factor.” (Ray Mickshaw/ FOX)

A pair of 13 year-old divas-in-training — from opposite sides of the tracks — are going head to head on “The X Factor.”

Last night, middle-schoolers Diamond White and Carly Rose Sonenclar both advanced to the live rounds of the competition, where they will join a team mentored by judge Britney Spears.

Both girls are stage kids with experience in musical theater.

But that’s where the similarities end.

White, an only child, comes from “a really, really bad area” of Detroit, she tells The Post. “There was crime everywhere!”

She now shares a bed in her one-bedroom, rented Los Angeles apartment with the mother who raised the her alone when her father abandoned the family.

Three thousand miles away, Sonenclar lives with her graphic-designer mom and copywriter dad in a six bedroom, gated Westchester mansion.

“I don’t know what my dad even looks like,” White admits. “I am not sure where he comes from. I don’t have any connection to him whatsoever.

“It has just been hard for me to not have that father figure in my life. There is something missing, but my mom always tries to fill that space.”

White, who appeared in the Las Vegas version of “Lion King” remembers: “I would ask my mom all the time, ‘Where is my dad?’ And she would call him, but he would never answer.

“I would tell her to tell him that I was a good girl, and I wanted him to come see me. But he never did, so eventually I just kind of got over it.”

Sonenclar — a star of Broadway’s “Les Miserables” — says she is sympathetic to White’s tough family situation. But she doesn’t believe viewers will cast votes merely out of charity.

The show “makes it look like she is this person coming from nothing and maybe it looks like I haven’t gone through anything. But obviously, that is not true,” Sonenclar says.

“This is a competition based on talent, not on life stories. I am not saying that I don’t have sympathy for her. Because obviously I do.

“I don’t have a sob story to tell,” she says. “But maybe I am somebody viewers can relate to because I am just a normal kid.”

For now, White says, “We are like best buds. Carly is so sweet and so awesome!”

Of course, that could change when the “X Factor” live shows begin on Thursday.

“When it comes to performing and things, it is still a competition,” White says. “So, I just have to keep that in mind.”