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"Fergie has filed legal documents to officially change her name. The Black Eyed Peas singer has requested to change her name from Stacy Ann Ferguson to Fergie Duhamel, reports TMZ.  Ferguson has made the request in order to &amp;quot;conform to the first name which she is commonly and professionally known as, and has been for many years&amp;quot;. She married actor Josh Duhamel in 2009 after five years of dating and is currently pregnant with their first child. The court will reportedly grant her request if she publishes a notice in her local newspaper for four consecutive weeks. The next hearing is scheduled for August 16. Fergie recently admitted that she is nervous about becoming a first-time mother, saying: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m still waiting for my maternal instincts to kick in, really.&amp;quot; View the latest celebrity pictures - photo gallery:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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