IDOL WEIGHT LOSS

MANDISA HAS DROPPED 75 POUNDS:

Remember MANDISA from the fifth season of "American Idol"??? Well, she's decided to cave in to society's inexplicable love for thin woman. . . by dropping 75 POUNDS.

Mandisa decided to lose weight after a trip to Mount Rushmore last summer. She had become so short of breath that she had trouble making it to the viewpoint. The trip was apparently related to her album, "Freedom", which drops on March 24th. She explains, "I thought I couldn't get up and sing about freedom when I had been chained for so long."