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Simon Cowell’s fianceé, Lauren Silverman, is sharing the couple’s “very clear” social media rules for their son
Silverman, who’s an advocate for the Raise the Age campaign in the U.K., shares that her son is not allowed to have social media
The boy mom reflected on her challenging pregnancy with son Eric earlier this week
Simon Cowell’s fianceé, Lauren Silverman, is sharing the couple’s “very clear” social media rules for their son.
During an appearance on This Morning, the 48-year-old entrepreneur spoke about her recent advocacy efforts with Raise the Age, a campaign that wants to ban all social media for every person under the age of 16 in the U.K. Silverman, who shares son Eric, 12, with the British TV personality, 66, shared that they have “very clear” rules for social media usage with their tween son.
“With Eric, we have been very clear on no social media for him, and particularly even more so once I started to become involved with the campaign,” she said. “It really just enforced and reinforced everything that I already knew.”
“So, we’ve been very strict with him about social media. In terms of having a phone, he does have, I guess you could call it a brick phone,” she explained. “It’s a smartphone in the sense that it’s like an Apple phone, but there’s nothing on it. It’s completely shut down. So, he can text and WhatsApp, but that’s it. Okay. So, you put restrictions on it.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Silverman shared her son’s “really sweet” reaction to hearing the news about the social media ban in the U.K.
“When this happened on Monday, … I said, ‘How do you feel about the ban?’ And he said, ‘Well, I’m really happy about it because now that means I can get social media now that the companies are going to make the platform safe,’ ” she recalled. “And I thought that was a really sweet thing that he said because it’s obvious that he’s aware, and he’s clued in and listening to all the things I’ve been saying.”
She then admitted that the 12-year-old has a “long way to go” until he gets social media, noting she’s “afraid,” but will think more about the possibility of it. She also revealed that Cowell himself doesn’t have a cellphone.
The entrepreneur recently revealed on the Happy Mum podcast that her pregnancy with her son Eric was “one of the hardest times of my life” because it led to the end of her first marriage.
“There are so many emotions that went with that, because it was the end of my marriage, obviously,” she said. “It was one of the hardest times of my life, because — I don’t want to say regretful, because I don’t regret anything — do I wish it had happened a different way … of course I do.”
Silverman continued, “But I think everything happens for a reason. It was just one of those moments where I knew it was right and that was what I wanted and that Simon was the person I wanted to spend my life with. And so, however we got there, I just believed that it was meant to be.”
Simon Cowell, Eric Cowell and Lauren Silverman at the “America’s Got Talent” Season 19 Quarterfinals on September 03, 2024 in Pasadena, California.
Credit: Steve Granitz/FilmMagic
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Silverman and her ex-husband, Andrew Silverman, with whom she shares a 20-year-old son named Adam, filed for divorce shortly after the news of her pregnancy broke.
“When I got divorced … it wasn’t a great situation at all. It was terrible,” she said on the podcast. “I feel really proud to say that … we are many years past that point. My ex and I, we do have a very nice relationship.”
“As much as I wish I could go back and take away the hurt and take away the pain that it caused for my ex-husband and for Adam … it happened,” the boy mom continued.
She said she “didn’t get to experience the joy” of being pregnant with her son Eric, after the widespread media attention the situation caused.
“[I was] in fight or flight mode because there was so much interest in what was happening … I was just trying not to fall apart,” the doting mom recalled. “Everywhere I went … it was just the way that people would look at me. I was on the cover of every magazine and there were news stories about it … it was just awful.”
She continued, “I felt like, ‘OK, this has happened. I’m a big girl. I’ve got to suck it up and get on with it. And whatever’s coming at me, I deserve it, I’ll take it and I’ll just keep my head down.’ And that’s what I did for a really long time.”
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