John Lennon and Yoko Ono were ‘obsessed with staying skinny,’ close friend claims

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“We All Shine On: John, Yoko, & Me,” out Tuesday.Mintz, 79, became friends with the couple after interviewing Ono, now 91, for her 1971 album “Fly.” He’s remained close with the Japanese singer, as well as her son Sean Lennon, since John’s death in 1980. “John kept a journal where each day he would write what his weight was,” Mintz alleged in his book about the late Beatles member, according to People.“Yoko and John had endless questions about this subject,” Mintz added.The media consultant said that Lennon once called him at 4 a.m.

asking to help him find “diet pills.”“They thought that everybody in Hollywood was slim and trim and that there were magic diet pills, and insisted I get that for them,” Mintz recalled, adding that he didn’t do that favor for the couple.Mintz also described Lennon and Ono’s racks of clothes as “like a Manhattan boutique” and said it was organized “according to waist size” with “a large wraparound ladder so they could get to higher boxes.”Lennon and Ono had “hundreds of articles of clothing, including dozens and dozens of hats and glasses,” Mintz added.“They kept their various jeans and pantsuits, whatever it might be, in different categories of waist size, 28 [inches] reaching to 32 or so, depending on how they perceived their weight and how tight the pants fit,” he said in his book.

The couple’s refrigerator allegedly was filled with, in Mintz’s words to People, “unrecognizable” health foods.“Their refrigerator was like going into this pit of curiosity,” he told the outlet.