John Lennon and Yoko Ono had been “obsessed” with staying skinny, in line with a brand new ebook.
Elliot Mintz, a former radio and tv host who went on to grow to be a publicist and leisure correspondent, wrote about Lennon and Ono in his ebook “John, Yoko, & Me,” and in doing so, he revealed simply how a lot significance the previous couple positioned on their weight.
Mintz, who first met Ono throughout an interview and who later befriended Lennon as properly, spoke with Folks concerning the ebook, and he defined that they had been “obsessive about staying skinny,” including that “John stored a journal the place every day he would write what his weight was.”
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John Lennon and Yoko Ono exterior their Central Park residence, The Dakota, after an evening within the recording studio in New York Metropolis in December 1980. (Getty Photos)
“They thought that everyone in Hollywood was slim and trim and that there have been magic slimming capsules,” he mentioned, “and insisted I get that for them.”
Within the ebook, obtained by Fox Information Digital, he recalled Lennon calling him as soon as at 4 a.m. to ask him to obtain the drugs as a result of he’d heard that Mintz had taken them. Mintz defined that he hadn’t taken drugs, however that he’d gotten weight-loss injections, and Lennon requested him to get these for him as a substitute.
“Their fridge was like going into this pit of curiosity.”
He mentioned that Lennon instructed him, “I am simply seeking to seem match. Are you able to name round and see if you will get me the injections? Would you try this for me?”
Mintz wrote that Lennon and Ono had been each “obsessed” with being skinny. (Getty)
Mintz discovered in a while that Lennon had “struggled his entire life” along with his weight, writing that, “He used to joke that again after they filmed ‘Assist!’ he was in his ‘fats Elvis’ interval: he was very self-conscious about that and took it very severely. He’d tried each fad weight-reduction plan on the planet and was clearly open to another new weight-loss strategies that got here alongside.”
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He claimed that Ono was “equally fixated together with her weight,” to the purpose that they organized their walk-in closet “in line with their fluctuating sizes, with division store-style clothes carousels numbered by their waist measurements.”
The Beatles, from left, George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, pose collectively, circa 1965. (Getty Photos)
Mintz instructed Folks, “They stored their varied denims and pantsuits, no matter it is likely to be, in several classes of waist measurement, 28 [inches] reaching to 32 or so, relying on how they perceived their weight and the way tight the pants match.”
In his ebook, Mintz remembered the primary time he met Lennon and Ono in particular person – they had been staying in a house in Ojai, a city north of Los Angeles, and so they invited him to go to them there.
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He was hungry, and he wrote that Lennon instructed him to assist himself to no matter was within the kitchen, however when he opened the fridge, he noticed “nothing discernibly edible – only a few bottles of water and a few containers crammed with unidentifiable and unappetizing-looking substances that I assumed to be well being meals of some type.”
John Lennon and Yoko Ono on Nov. 2, 1980 – the primary time in 5 years that Lennon had been photographed professionally and the final complete photograph shoot of his life. (Jack Mitchell/Getty Photos)
Mintz had beforehand claimed that each Lennon and Ono had been withdrawing from methadone and that one of many negative effects of that’s lack of urge for food, however he famous that he later discovered that it was “a perennial problem,” explaining, “They’d unconventional tastes and infrequently stored something that appeared appetizing of their fridges.”
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He instructed Folks, “Their fridge was like going into this pit of curiosity. There have been generally these paper containers, suggesting there have been leftovers from the evening earlier than, and you’ll open the container and look in and nonetheless not be capable to determine what they had been consuming.”
