John Lennon, Yoko Ono were 'obsessed with staying skinny' like Hollywood stars, author says

John Lennon and Yoko Ono were "obsessed" with staying thin, according to a caller book.

Elliot Mintz, a erstwhile vigor and tv big who went connected to go a publicist and amusement correspondent, wrote astir Lennon and Ono successful his publication "John, Yoko, & Me," and successful doing so, helium revealed conscionable however overmuch value the erstwhile mates placed connected their weight.

Mintz, who archetypal met Ono during an interrogation and who aboriginal befriended Lennon arsenic well, spoke with People astir the book, and helium explained that they were "obsessed with staying skinny," adding that "John kept a diary wherever each time helium would constitute what his value was."

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John Lennon and Yoko Ono extracurricular their Central Park residence, The Dakota, aft a nighttime successful the signaling workplace successful New York City successful December 1980. (Getty Images)

"They thought that everybody successful Hollywood was slim and trim and that determination were magic fare pills," helium said, "and insisted I get that for them."

In the book, obtained by Fox News Digital, helium recalled Lennon calling him erstwhile astatine 4 a.m. to inquire him to procure the pills due to the fact that he'd heard that Mintz had taken them. Mintz explained that helium hadn't taken pills, but that he'd gotten weight-loss injections, and Lennon asked him to get those for him instead.

"Their refrigerator was similar going into this pit of curiosity."

He said that Lennon told him, "I'm conscionable looking to look fit. Can you telephone astir and spot if you tin get maine the injections? Would you bash that for me?"

Mintz wrote that Lennon and Ono were some "obsessed" with being thin. (Getty)

Mintz learned aboriginal connected that Lennon had "struggled his full life" with his weight, penning that, "He utilized to gag that backmost erstwhile they filmed ‘Help!' helium was successful his ‘fat Elvis’ period: helium was precise self-conscious astir that and took it precise seriously. He'd tried each fad diet successful the satellite and was intelligibly unfastened to immoderate different caller weight-loss methods that came along."

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He claimed that Ono was "equally fixated with her weight," to the constituent that they organized their walk-in closet "according to their fluctuating sizes, with section store-style covering carousels numbered by their waist measurements."

The Beatles, from left, George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, airs together, circa 1965. (Getty Images)

Mintz told People, "They kept their assorted jeans and pantsuits, immoderate it mightiness be, successful antithetic categories of waist size, 28 [inches] reaching to 32 oregon so, depending connected however they perceived their value and however choky the pants fit."

In his book, Mintz remembered the archetypal clip helium met Lennon and Ono successful idiosyncratic – they were staying successful a location successful Ojai, a municipality northbound of Los Angeles, and they invited him to sojourn them there.

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He was hungry, and helium wrote that Lennon told him to assistance himself to immoderate was successful the kitchen, but erstwhile helium opened the refrigerator, helium saw "nothing discernibly edible – conscionable a fewer bottles of h2o and immoderate containers filled with unidentifiable and unappetizing-looking substances that I presumed to beryllium wellness nutrient of immoderate sort."

John Lennon and Yoko Ono connected Nov. 2, 1980 – the archetypal clip successful 5 years that Lennon had been photographed professionally and the past broad photograph sprout of his life. (Jack Mitchell/Getty Images)

Mintz had antecedently claimed that some Lennon and Ono were withdrawing from methadone and that 1 of the broadside effects of that is nonaccomplishment of appetite, but helium noted that helium aboriginal learned that it was "a perennial issue," explaining, "They had unconventional tastes and seldom kept thing that appeared appetizing successful their refrigerators."

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He told People, "Their refrigerator was similar going into this pit of curiosity. There were sometimes these insubstantial containers, suggesting determination were leftovers from the nighttime before, and you would unfastened the instrumentality and look successful and inactive not beryllium capable to place what they were eating."