James Cook to Become a Father Just Months After Poppy Delevingne Welcomed Her First Child

Poppy Delevingne’s ex-husband James Cook has revealed that he is expecting his first child with fiancée Lauren Brown. 

The businessman, 44, took to his Instagram on Monday to share a photo of Lauren debuting her blossoming baby bump during their holiday to the Costa del Sol.

The snap showed the photographer’s agent posing in a white bikini top and baggy shorts, leaving her bare bump on full display as she threw up double peace signs to the camera.

Announcing their baby news, James captioned the shot: ‘Wife and baby bump on hols’, and displayed his immense joy by adding poignant track, Lucky Man, by The Verve.

He was flooded with well wishes from his followers, including congratulatory comments from singer Sophie Ellis-Bexter and Sienna Miller’s sister Savannah.

James and Lauren’s baby news comes off the heels of their engagement, after he popped the question to his ex-wife’s doppelganger while on holiday in Bhutan in April.

Confirming the happy news, Lauren – who has a remarkable resemblance to Poppy with her slender figure, chiselled cheekbones and light blonde hair – shared a photo on Instagram of her and James celebrating in the Himalayas.

Referencing the Adidas tracksuit she was sporting, she captioned the snap: ‘Said YES in a three stripe @cook_james ❤️Bhutan you have been a real life fairy tale!’

James also shared a post on Instagram of them walking in the distance, and gushed: ‘YES…… @lauren_ebrown thank you!’ 

His announcement that he is set to become a father comes just three months after his ex Poppy, 39, gave birth to her first child.

The socialite and sister of Cara Delevingne welcomed daughter Kaia Moon with her billionaire businessman partner Archie Keswick on May 20.

But she waited to announce the birth until July, taking to Instagram to share a black and white snap of her clutching her baby girl’s hand with the caption: ‘20.05.25 The stars aligned, & then there was you.

‘KAIA MOON KESWICK. Welcome to the world baby bear. You have our hearts, our everything.’

Poppy previously revealed she had discovered she was pregnant during London Fashion Week, after she noticed her clothes were tighter than usual while being fitted for a Burberry show.

After discovering she was expecting a girl, she gushed to ELLE UK in January: ‘Obviously, I would have been fine with either, and when I was younger, I always thought when I get pregnant, I wouldn’t find out, but the second we got told we could find out, we did. 

‘I’m so excited. I come from all girls, we’re very girl-heavy. Girls are great.’

She explained she has long wanted to start a family of her own, but admitted that in recent years she thought it might not happen for her and had ‘made peace with it’.

Poppy and Archie kept their exciting news to themselves for a while and only told friends and family around the four-month mark, with the model explaining she was ‘really nervous’ about her pregnancy and wanted to ‘protect’ it for a while.

She said: ‘It just feels like such an extraordinary privilege to be able to do this, to be able to have a baby at this age and at this time, and when it happened, I couldn’t really believe it.’

She and James got married back in 2014 at St Paul’s Church in Kensington, with a star-studded guestlist that included Alexa Chung, Georgia May Jagger, Princess Beatrice and Suki Waterhouse.

However, the couple eventually grew apart, and while choosing not to officially announce their split, in 2023, Poppy started dating Prince Constantine Alexios of Greece and Denmark – sparking speculation that she and James had separated permanently.

In September last year, she finally broke her silence on the divorce, saying she ‘will always have a good relationship’ with James. 

She added: ‘There’s a lot of love and respect there. It just no longer worked for us. I met him when I was 20 years old, and 15 years is a long time…

‘I think 15 years to be with someone is a success. And sometimes these things just have to come to an end. When it did end, that feeling, it was this sort of, like, bubbling-up of freedom. I felt sort of 20 all over again.

‘It should have probably ended earlier than it did, and I think one of the reasons why it didn’t is because of that stigma, which is extraordinary.

‘I’m quite sad, actually, that we should feel that there’s such a thing about it. [It’s] that: “God, she’s divorced, damaged goods, no one’s going to want you.”

‘Especially women in their late thirties who haven’t had a baby. It’s not easy to make that kind of a decision. You have to have courage. You’ve got to love yourself, put yourself first, and you’ve got to be happy. We have one shot at life.’

Poppy went public with her romance with Archie in July last year, when they attended the BST Hyde Park festival together.

Archie is the son of Simon Keswick, former director of multi-billion pound Hong Kong conglomerate Jardine Matheson – owner of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group.

His family has a reported private fortune of £6.35bn and he is no stranger to a high-profile relationship, having previously dated actress Sienna Miller.