A new approach to building models of generalized parton distributions (GPDs) is discussed that is based on the factorized DD (double distribution) Ansatz within the single-DD formalism. The latter was not used before, because reconstructing GPDs from the forward limit one should start in this case with a very singular function f (β)/β rather than with the usual parton density f (β). This results in a non-integrable singularity at β = 0 exaggerated by the fact that f (β)'s, on their own, have a singular β −a Regge behavior for small β. It is shown that the singularity is regulated within the GPD model of Szczepaniak et al., in which the Regge behavior is implanted through a subtracted dispersion relation for the hadron-parton scattering amplitude. It is demonstrated that using proper softening of the quark-hadron vertices in the regions of large parton virtualities results in model GPDs H(x, ξ) that are finite and continuous at the "border point" x = ξ. Using a simple input forward distribution, we illustrate implementation of the new approach for explicit construction of model GPDs. As a further development, a more general method of regulating the β = 0 singularities is proposed that is based on the separation of the initial single DD f (β, α) into the "plus" part [f (β, α)]+ and the D-term. It is demonstrated that the "DD+D" separation method allows to (re)derive GPD sum rules that relate the difference between the forward distribution f (x) = H(x, 0) and the border function H(x, x) with the D-term function D(α).