Looks like Senator Ted Kennedy (D-Chappaquidick) may have concealed a child for the last couple of decades.

The National Enquirer splashes this week with a shocking story about Sen. Ted KennedyÂ’s secret love child with a Cape Cod woman whom the mag says he dated during his days as a swinging single.

According to the tabloid’s source, the boy, named Christopher, just celebrated his 21st birthday and is “mature enough to make his own choices about his background and biological father.”

A Kennedy family confidante told the Enquirer, “This is one of the biggest secrets in the Kennedy family and known to only a few people including Ted’s ex-wife, Joan.”

As for the senator, his spokesgal Melissa Wagoner last night called the tabloid tale “irresponsible fiction.”

Here’s the story according to the Enquirer: Back in 1983, Kennedy, then 51, took up with Caroline Bilodeau, an attractive brunette, several months before divorcing Joan, the mother of his three kids — Kara, Ted Jr. and Patrick.

The relationship seems to have ended with the announcement of the pregnancy and Ms. Bilodeau decided to have the baby.

“Caroline announced to the family that she was two months pregnant around May 1984,” blabbed a Bilodeau confidante. “Ted was not happy about the news. He already had three kids with Joan and knew a baby out of wedlock could hurt him politically.”

According to the Enquirer, the scandal-scarred senator begged Bilodeau to have an abortion, but she refused.

“He told her he couldn’t undergo another scandal — not after Chappaquiddick, not so close to his divorce from Joan” said the source. “He was very angry when she defied him and had the child.”

Imagine that -- St. Teddy of the Sacred Precedent of Roe v. Wade dumped his pregnant girlfriend because she exercised her right to choose! heck, he tried to coerce an abortion for his own political advantage!

I guess the possibility of taking responsibility for his child, stepping up and being an active father never entered into the picture for the old horn-dog

But then again, maybe the young man is better off for not having been exposed to the corrupting influence that is Teddy Kennedy.

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