t's going to be hard to call Simon Cowell "Mr. Nasty" anymore.

Cowell has shared pics of himself, his baby mama, Lauren Silverman, and their son, Eric, and The X Factor host is clearly a man whose heart has melted.

"I never knew how much love and pride I would feel," he wrote along with a snap of himself cradling little Eric.

"Mum, Dad and Eric.  Now two days old," he wrote with a pic of the happy family all together."