John Lennon and Yoko Ono were 'obsessed' with staying thin, according to 'John, Yoko, & Me' author Elliot Mintz, a close friend of the two.
John Lennon and Yoko Ono were 'obsessed' with staying thin, according to a new book. Elliot Mintz, a former radio and television host who went on to become a publicist and entertainment correspondent, wrote about Lennon and Ono in his book 'John, Yoko, & Me,' and in doing so, he revealed just how much importance the former couple placed on their weight.
He claimed that Ono was 'equally fixated with her weight,' to the point that they organized their walk-in closet 'according to their fluctuating sizes, with department store-style clothing carousels numbered by their waist measurements.' Mintz told People, 'They kept their various jeans and pantsuits, whatever it might be, in different categories of waist size, 28 reaching to 32 or so, depending on how they perceived their weight and how tight the pants fit.
He was hungry, and he wrote that Lennon told him to help himself to whatever was in the kitchen, but when he opened the refrigerator, he saw 'nothing discernibly edible – just a few bottles of water and some containers filled with unidentifiable and unappetizing-looking substances that I presumed to be health food of some sort.
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