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Cowell’s baby mama mistakenly thought she couldn’t get pregnant

UNPROTECTED: The now-pregnant Lauren Silverman, with baby daddy Simon Cowell, believed she was incapable of getting pregnant. (
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Simon Cowell’s married squeeze didn’t trick him into knocking her up — because “the truth is that she didn’t think she could get pregnant,” a source told The Post yesterday.

Two-timing wife Lauren Silverman — who has a 7-year-old son with cuckolded hubby Andrew — “had been trying for a long time for another child in the past when things were better between them, and she had suffered a few miscarriages,” the source said.

“She and Simon were not using protection because doctors said she couldn’t get pregnant,” the source said.

The brunette beauty allegedly began bedding the tart-tongued “X Factor” judge in 2011, after Cowell befriended Andrew and began socializing with the couple.

The source also said that Lauren’s parents “are delighted she is pregnant with Simon’s child, partly because there’s a baby on the way, but more that the father is a wealthy celebrity who will take care of her.”

“The only fear is that because of her history of miscarriages that she might lose the child and end up with nothing,” the source said.

Sources also knocked down a report that Cowell dumped Lauren six weeks ago, before learning that she was expecting his child.

One source said the two were spotted together in London a few weeks ago, while another said Lauren has been bragging to her friends in New York that she and Cowell are “together, and I want him to marry me.”

Cowell flew out of Los Angeles on a private plane Friday night to escape the paternity scandal and is planning to spend at least a month cruising the Mediterranean on a yacht with friends.

“He is running away from the whole situation,” a source said.

But another source said Cowell’s quick getaway doesn’t mean he plans to kick Lauren to the curb.

“There is not much Simon can do at the moment,” the source said.

“He can’t be with Lauren while she is still sorting out her divorce.”

Despite slapping Lauren with divorce papers in which he accused her of adultery with Cowell, Andrew spent the weekend with his wife and their son in Bridgehampton.

Although Lauren is expected to score between $3 million and $4 million under a prenuptial agreement with her betrayed husband, the couple is reportedly gearing up to battle over child custody.