Tag — Mandisa

During season 5 of American Idol, the Grammy-nominated Christian singer, Mandisa, was the brunt of all of Simon Cowell’s jokes.  Unfortunately, Mandisa was used to this because she grew up as a fat child.  She told People Magazine that she was sexually molested as a child and when she was 16 years old she was raped.

“A lot of girls turn to men to fill that void and some turn to drugs,” Mandisa, 32, tells People. “I turned to food as my drug of choice.”

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