Mandisa came backstage to the media room at the Dove Awards at the Fox Theater in Atlanta.
The American Idol “loser” looks great. Since her time on Idol she has lost 120 pounds, but not because of pressures from the “Hollywood” world. She says she lost the weight as a tribute to God.
“Our bodies are the temple of God, and I wanted to honor that,” she said.
Her new CD “What If We Were Real” was a long journey for the singer. She said she cried and really learned to walk with the Lord.
“I’m a different person from when we started the CD,” she said. “I took off my mask before God. I went through a period where I didn’t trust the Lord, and I was real with him about it. And He has brought me to a place where I am ultra dependent on Him.”