Everything she touches is infused with her warmth, sensuality, electric energy and what we might call Fergie magic. She recorded two albums with the hip hop/pop group Black Eyed Peas and is now focused on her solo career. Not only has she won major music awards, and had hit after hit, but she was voted one of Maxim’s Hot 100 Women of 2006. Her single, Big Girls Don’t Cry was her first worldwide #1 single. She’s been both a girl scout and an out-of-control teenager admitting to a life of drugs, risky behaviour and dealings with gang members. “When you’re young,” she says, “your hormones can rage out of control.” Her message to young people is responsible behavior. “Believe me,” she says, “Practice what I preach.”