Stacy began her acting career as the voice of Sally on the Saturday morning cartoon The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show in 1983, as well as on two TV specials: It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown (1984) and Snoopy's Getting Married, Charlie Brown (1985). In 1984, following a commercial for Rice Krispies, she appeared in the pilot for the long-running musical television show, Kids Incorporated. The show, which also starred Jennifer Love Hewitt and the girl who would become goth pop princess Martika, was a hit with Saturday morning audiences and she sang backup on it until 1989.  In 1986, she appeared in the horror comedy movie Monster in the Closet as well as two TV specials: Kids Incorporated: Chartbusters and Kids Incorporated: Rock In the New Year. She left the spotlight in 1989 and settled down to live a normal teenager's life.  But music was always her first passion and she teamed up with Stefanie Ridel and fellow Kids Incorporated member Renee Sandstrom to form the band Wild Orchid. In 1999, they even had their own Saturday morning show on the FOX Family Channel. They released their first album, Wild Orchid, in 1997 on RCA and it was followed the next year with Oxygen. They scored a minor hit when the song "Declaration" was featured in an episode of Beverly Hills, 90210.  In 2001, Wild Orchid was ready to launch a third album but the label declined to release it. Wild Orchid ceased to exist and it triggered an emotional crisis for Stacy, forcing her to seek therapy.  For the next few years, she continued to perform, albeit in obscurity. She became a dance floor regular and backup singer at a number of Los Angeles venues. And that's when she met will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas.  They had a number of meetings after shows and before long, she was invited to join the trio in the recording studio. They recorded five songs together and the band invited her to join them permanently.

The Black Eyed Peas actually began as Atban Klann in 1989, with will.i.am and apl.de.ap. They became Black Eyed Peas in 1995 after recruiting Taboo and then singer Kim Hill. In 1998, they released their first opus, Behind The Front, and it was followed up in 2000 with Bridging the Gap.

Even though their musical style was out there and they had collaborated with big shots like Macy Gray and Wyclef Jean, the group's relationships deteriorated and Hill left the band. It took two years for their third album, Elephunk, to be produced and the arrival of Stacy, who took the stage name of Fergie, to make the Black Eyed Peas appreciated in mainstream circles.

While she's finally enjoying major success, she's hoping to embark on a solo career. The first step has already been taken since she contributed to the soundtrack of Adam Sandler's 50 First Dates (2004) on the remake of "True" along with will.i.am.   

More often than not, successful child actors do not graduate to be popular mainstream figures, but are forgotten almost entirely. Thankfully for us, Fergie is the exception to the rule. In fact, she has leapfrogged from one successful gig to another her whole life.

With her combination of looks, talent and newfound acclaim, she will undeniably find that the roads are paved in gold wherever she chooses to go.  When her band Wild Orchid broke up, Fergie was rather depressed and it took the boys of the Black Eyed Peas to make her happy again. Nowadays, she enjoys her freedom with her new posse. They treat her both as a sister and as a mother, due to her nurturing personality.

Fergie's soulful feminine vocals have helped revive the Black Eyed Peas. In fact, you could say that she personifies their lyrics about women. She admits to having had trouble adjusting to their shrewdly impudent rhymes and special brand of funky hip-hop at first, but her passion and energy have made the band what it is today.  There's something absolutely libidinous about a woman in the hip-hop industry. It's all about attitude: this in-your-face, come-hither mindset that calls upon the audience to imagine what the music suggests. Fergie embodies this state of mind.

She dated Justin Timberlake before Britney Spears came along. And men aren't the only ones who find her appealing: a lot of the groupies that attend their concerts are lesbians hoping to get lucky with Fergie. What most people wouldn't give for a glimpse of that!  Back when she was 8 years old and known only as Stacy, she was the voice of Sally Brown on The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show. She reprised this role in It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown (1984) and Snoopy's Getting Married, Charlie Brown (1985).

After having appeared in a commercial for Rice Krispies, she had a small role in the horror comedy film, Monster in the Closet (1986).

She was also part of the long-running tuneful television show Kids Incorporated between 1984 and 1989. In 1988, she sang backup on several songs on Martika's eponymous debut album.

In the mid-'90s, she joined her friends Stefanie Ridel and Renee Sandstrom, and they formed the band Wild Orchid. They released two albums: Wild Orchid in 1997 and Oxygen in 1998. A year later, they hosted their own FOX Family Channel Saturday morning show, Great Pretenders.

She met with will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas and joined the band in 2003, just in time for the release of their third album Elephunk. Her voice takes center stage on the songs "Shut Up" and "The Boogie That Be."  Anyone who's ever followed the career of the Black Eyed Peas before 2003 knows that the videos are a lot more fun to watch now that Fergie has signed on. A one-time blonde, she's now back to her darker hair and it suits her magnificently.

She has soft features and eyes which people say you can easily get lost in. Having done a lot of dancing in her career, her body is a fair representation of her energetic lifestyle. Even though the members of the band quip her about it, she always has a variety of beauty products on-hand to make herself prettier.  Once upon a time, when Fergie was doing children's television, she was a squeaky-clean kid who seemed like she was heading for a career at the White House. Then, during her Wild Orchid days, she could have passed for a walking commercial for the Gap.

Now that she's joined the Black Eyed Peas, she cultivates a ghetto-funk image. The bottom line is that she adapts her style to whatever she is doing at the moment. Makes you wonder how she would look if she joined Kid Rock's road show, doesn't it?

Stacy Says : "I can crowd surf if I want and I'm not going to get in trouble with anybody."