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"Fergie is one celebrity who is never described as &amp;quot;the girl next door.&amp;quot; Crazy-hot body? Check. A closet full of sexy designer stuff? Check. Eyebrow ring? Check. A former drug habit she has openly and publicly owned up to? Check. A solo album that&amp;#x27;s packed with hits? Yep. And let&amp;#x27;s not forget that the woman even coined an adjective to describe herself: Fergalicious. Hmm. Then I meet her at the Glamour cover shoot in Malibu and realize that I might have an opinion to rethink. It seems that, all appearances aside, Stacy Ann Ferguson from Hacienda Heights, California, may have just a little bit of the girl-next-door thing going on--and that&amp;#x27;s what makes her so cool. The singer, 33, is hanging out with the photo crew, piling mesclun salad on her plate, skimming the headlines of the Los Angeles Times and putting in her Starbucks order. And as she eyes the chocolate cookies on the dessert table like a woman with an appetite, she jokes about how the night before the Glamour shoot, she discovered cupcakes with green frosting and shredded coconut at the Los Angeles convenience mart Pink Dot. &amp;quot;We bought eight of them,&amp;quot; she says, laughing. The &amp;quot;we&amp;quot; she&amp;#x27;s talking about, of course, includes her boyfriend of three years, 35-year-old Transformers star Josh Duhamel, who proposed to her just weeks before this interview. Fergie&amp;#x27;s early career has all the makings of a juicy E! True Hollywood Story. Her transformation to one-name status began at age eight, when she became a regular on Kids Incorporated (with Jennifer Love Hewitt). In the 1990s, she sang with the trio Wild Orchid, but quit after dealing with a crystal meth addiction in 2001. Newly clean, she joined the Black Eyed Peas in time to record their 2003 megahit, Elephunk, the band&amp;#x27;s first commercially successful album. Her seven-years-in-the-making solo debut, The Dutchess, was released in September 2006, spawning three number-one singles and two more Top 5 hits, most recently the R&amp;amp;B-spiked, sticks-in-your-brain &amp;quot;Clumsy.&amp;quot; Now this gigawatt-grinning (and shorter than you might think!) woman settles into a leather couch wearing a black mini, knee-high black boots and a freaking huge diamond on her left hand--this is Fergie after all! She opens up to Glamour about going to therapy, wanting kids and using self-help tricks to make all her dreams come true (so that&amp;#x27;s how she does it). GLAMOUR: OK, we have to talk about a very important topic, which is you and Josh. You just got engaged. How did he propose? FERGIE: I can&amp;#x27;t tell! One of my New Year&amp;#x27;s resolutions is not to talk about Josh and me so much. GLAMOUR: Oh, no! FERGIE: I know. I can&amp;#x27;t spill everything, because we made a pact to keep it sacred, just because so many relationships today are exploited. When you give people so much, you don&amp;#x27;t have anything left for yourself. But I am thrilled. I feel like the happiest, luckiest girl in the world. But it&amp;#x27;s early on. The ring is still too big. GLAMOUR: Can I look at it? [Fergie puts out her hand to reveal a blueberry-size solitaire diamond in a simple setting.] FERGIE: It&amp;#x27;s engraved inside. GLAMOUR: It&amp;#x27;s beautiful. What does it say in there? FERGIE: J heart S. GLAMOUR: Did you shop for it or did he surprise you? FERGIE: He completely surprised me. GLAMOUR: When I interviewed Josh [for Glamour&amp;#x27;s August 2007 issue], he told me that if you had been in high school together, you would have been too hot to date him. FERGIE: Oh, please! It&amp;#x27;s interesting: He&amp;#x27;s so great-looking--everybody knows that. But that&amp;#x27;s so not the reason that I&amp;#x27;m with him. I&amp;#x27;ve dated many different types. I was all over the map. For me, it was learning about being attracted to the right things in a person, not the wrong things.... GLAMOUR: Did you imagine you&amp;#x27;d be with someone like him? FERGIE: No, he&amp;#x27;s much cuter than I ever could have imagined!... It&amp;#x27;s a remarkable time for me because I&amp;#x27;ve had such a great run with The Dutchess...and now this. You know, it is so interesting how in this business, the second you start dating they want to know if you&amp;#x27;re engaged. The second you&amp;#x27;re engaged they want to know when you&amp;#x27;re going to be married. The second you&amp;#x27;re married, they want to know when you&amp;#x27;re having children. GLAMOUR: Does that get annoying? FERGIE: Yeah, because you don&amp;#x27;t want to ruin it for yourself when it really happens. Now everyone is starting to ask about the wedding and it&amp;#x27;s like, &amp;quot;Back off, people!&amp;quot; I want to enjoy this part of it all. Enjoy saying the word fianc&amp;amp;eacute;... GLAMOUR: So how does it feel to call Josh that? FERGIE: It&amp;#x27;s exciting. It&amp;#x27;s the first time I&amp;#x27;ve ever said that. I keep catching myself! I had never even looked at a wedding magazine, let alone rings and settings. I wasn&amp;#x27;t that girl who knew exactly what she wanted. And now I&amp;#x27;ve got a stack of wedding magazines. GLAMOUR: Are you going to wear white? FERGIE: I don&amp;#x27;t know. Knowing me, I&amp;#x27;ll wear black. GLAMOUR: Really? FERGIE: Or maybe I&amp;#x27;ll wear red and be a harlot! [Laughs.] GLAMOUR: OK, let&amp;#x27;s switch topics. Your Wild Orchid bandmates staged an intervention with you when you were 25. You said you faked having bulimia to cover up for the fact that you were using crystal meth. FERGIE: Yeah. Wasn&amp;#x27;t that brilliant? I&amp;#x27;m being completely sarcastic! GLAMOUR: Well, drugs make you lie, right? FERGIE: Oh, completely--drugs make you lie. But honestly, in the beginning, I liked the fact that at first [the drugs] made me thinner. I did have a secret joy about that. But that lasted for about a month. And then all of a sudden I was too skinny. I lost my curves. My face was very gaunt. So I would go [out to eat and] get practically everything on the menu, and... GLAMOUR: ...shove it down. FERGIE: Yeah, then sleep for a day. I was covering up for the fact that I was doing drugs. It was a very weird lifestyle. GLAMOUR: Was there a time before your intervention when you hit rock bottom? FERGIE: I had a whole week of rock bottom. At that point I was in a writing mood and very inspired and the words were just flowing out of my pen. I really feel like I was meant to write the song [&amp;quot;Losing My Ground&amp;quot;] because the next day I had the intervention. The Wild Orchid girls read my lyrics and brought them to me. [Some sample lyrics from the song: &amp;quot;Don&amp;#x27;t know what day it is/What&amp;#x27;s going on?.../Is this me up in the mirror?/&amp;#x27;Cuz I thought it was somebody else/Well, it&amp;#x27;s a realization, when you find out you don&amp;#x27;t even wanna look at yourself.&amp;quot;] GLAMOUR: Do you ever watch the show Intervention on TV? FERGIE: Yes, it&amp;#x27;s a great show. GLAMOUR: How does it make you feel to see people struggling with their addiction? FERGIE: It makes me feel happy that it&amp;#x27;s not me anymore. You can&amp;#x27;t help someone unless she wants to help herself. You can give her a nudge, but if she doesn&amp;#x27;t want to help herself, no one is going to be able to force her to do anything. I like that &amp;quot;attraction rather than promotion&amp;quot; approach. GLAMOUR: What does that mean? FERGIE: Well, instead of my telling [people] what they should be doing, it makes more sense to be an inspiration to them. I&amp;#x27;m not perfect by any means. I&amp;#x27;ve done some stupid things, and I&amp;#x27;m very aware of that. In this day and age, you have to have a sense of humor about it, and at the same time, it&amp;#x27;s made me a lot more aware that you have to take responsibility for your actions. For me, it&amp;#x27;s about staying on the path. If I slip, that&amp;#x27;s OK; just get back up and keep focused. GLAMOUR: Do you ever see yourself in young celebs like Britney and Lindsay, who are getting caught doing &amp;quot;stupid things&amp;quot;? FERGIE: I&amp;#x27;ve gone through a lot of the same things. I just don&amp;#x27;t have a mug shot. GLAMOUR: What would you say to those girls? FERGIE: My advice? Pick someone you admire and watch what they do. For me, it&amp;#x27;s my therapist. GLAMOUR: And you started going to therapy right after you got off drugs? FERGIE: Yeah. It&amp;#x27;s been on and off, but I&amp;#x27;ll always go. I notice when I don&amp;#x27;t go, I start creating bad habits for myself. It&amp;#x27;s up to me to put in the effort.... And I definitely watch The Secret a lot. That&amp;#x27;s part of my therapy: positive thinking. Really seeing yourself having everything you want, and feeling the emotion of having that. I did that about a Grammy. When The Secret came out, I was saying, &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;m going to win a Grammy.&amp;quot; And I went there with my hypnosis and believing, really feeling what it would be like to have one. And now I have three. I really am a backer of that, the laws of attraction. GLAMOUR: Are there times when you can&amp;#x27;t believe this is your life, compared with the life you had when you were doing drugs? FERGIE: Completely. I remember having no money and debating whether I should go get fast food or eat at Mom&amp;#x27;s for free. Now I&amp;#x27;m going to these fancy places on vacation and ordering room service. I treat myself because I remember not having it. GLAMOUR: But you seem to have self-control about everything--about food, about fitness, about not using drugs. That&amp;#x27;s got to be hard in your line of work, where there&amp;#x27;s so much excess. FERGIE: I keep a journal. I like myself better when I just pour it out. It&amp;#x27;s easier sometimes, even if you write on a piece of paper and then tear it up, just to vent it out. Because in the past I have sometimes used interviews as therapy, and then I&amp;#x27;ve regretted it because I&amp;#x27;m going, &amp;quot;Wait a second, that is not for the world to know. That&amp;#x27;s for me to know.&amp;quot; GLAMOUR: Right. Or your therapist. FERGIE: Yeah. Usually I&amp;#x27;ll talk to her twice a week. GLAMOUR: As an entertainer, your body is a part of your business. Is that stressful, or does it help keep you motivated? FERGIE: It&amp;#x27;s a good thing; I like to keep myself in check. Because everybody goes overboard once in a while. I learned a lot of lessons. A lot. Just by... GLAMOUR: ...eating too much? FERGIE: Doing everything too much! But I have learned more and more to enjoy my body when I have a few extra pounds on, just being more voluptuous. GLAMOUR: Do you ever have fat days? FERGIE: You just have to know what looks good on you. I say, focus on the body part that you feel most comfortable about. My legs don&amp;#x27;t change much so a good look for me is a short black dress with long sleeves. If you see me in that, you know I&amp;#x27;ve gained a few pounds, which is fine. GLAMOUR: That&amp;#x27;s good advice. Health-wise, is there anything else you do? FERGIE: I do vinegar shots. It has to be organic apple cider, unfiltered. GLAMOUR: You do a shot of it? FERGIE: Two tablespoons. For some reason I&amp;#x27;ve noticed a difference on my stomach. I just trusted [my trainer] on this one. I&amp;#x27;m sharing. I&amp;#x27;m all about sharing secrets. [Fergie&amp;#x27;s trainer, Natasha Kufa, told Glamour that she believes vinegar shots flush out fats in the colon, which helps the body digest food and gets rid of cravings.] GLAMOUR: Speaking of secrets, do you think you&amp;#x27;ll have the wedding soon? FERGIE: I can&amp;#x27;t tell details. GLAMOUR: Right, OK. Let&amp;#x27;s talk much further in the future. I have to ask,do you picture having kids, a family? FERGIE: I&amp;#x27;ll definitely have children. GLAMOUR: How do you think it will fit into your lifestyle? FERGIE: I&amp;#x27;d like to ask Gwen [Stefani], because she&amp;#x27;s really done a great job. I don&amp;#x27;t want to be touring, though, when I&amp;#x27;m pregnant, like Jennifer Lopez did, like Gwen and Christina [Aguilera] did. I know I don&amp;#x27;t want that. Because I get way too physical [on stage]; I don&amp;#x27;t think I could hold myself back. And I would just be scared to hurt the baby. So for me, I&amp;#x27;d take time off to read books about having babies, because I have no idea about any of that. I&amp;#x27;ve never changed a diaper! GLAMOUR: Really? Has Josh? FERGIE: Well, he has [three younger] sisters, so he&amp;#x27;s gone through it. I&amp;#x27;m going to be the student. And I&amp;#x27;ll probably write an album during that time. GLAMOUR: How do you think Josh would be as a dad? FERGIE: Oh, he&amp;#x27;d be amazing. He definitely wants children and so do I. We&amp;#x27;re on the same path; we just don&amp;#x27;t have a time line. We&amp;#x27;re enjoying being in the now... GLAMOUR: Maybe it&amp;#x27;s because of years of therapy, but you always seem so open. What I think people like about you is that you&amp;#x27;re an open book and you&amp;#x27;re honest. Some celebs use handlers who watch everything they say. FERGIE: I think it&amp;#x27;s obvious when people try to spin things.... You kind of start to realize, That&amp;#x27;s really not what happened. It&amp;#x27;s a publicist answer. So even though you have to check yourself, or maybe regret every once in a while saying something... GLAMOUR: ...you are happy you are being honest. FERGIE: Yeah, I feel more comfortable because I don&amp;#x27;t have to &amp;quot;remember&amp;quot; my answers. You never forget the truth! I just have to learn how much truth to give, that&amp;#x27;s my boundary. That&amp;#x27;s my new thing."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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