John Lennon, Yoko Ono were ‘concerned about staying clean’ like Hollywood stars

John Lennon and Yoko Ono were “obsessed” with staying thin, according to a new book.

Elliot Mintz, a former radio and television host who eventually became a news and entertainment commentator, wrote about Lennon and Ono in his book “John, Yoko, & Me,” and in doing so, revealed how important a couple is to their weight.

Mintz, who first met Ono during an interview and later became friends with Lennon, spoke to people about the book, and explained that they were “concerned about staying skinny,” adding that “John kept a journal where he wrote every day. What was his weight.”

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“They thought that everyone in Hollywood was thin and skinny and that there were diet pills,” he said, “and they insisted that I get them.”

In the letter, obtained by Fox News Digital, he recalled that Lennon called him once at 4 am asking him to buy pills because he had heard that Mintz had taken them. Mintz explained that he hadn’t taken the pills, but had received weight loss injections, and Lennon asked him to get them for him.

“Their refrigerator was like walking into this cave of curiosity.”

— Elliot Mintz

He said Lennon told him, “I’m looking to look fit. Can you call and see if you can get me some injections? Can you do that for me?”

Mintz wrote that Lennon and Ono were both “concerned” about being young. (Getty)

Mintz later learned that Lennon had “struggled his whole life” with his weight, writing, “He used to joke that back when they were filming ‘Help!’ he was in his ‘fat Elvis’ period: he was very self-conscious about it and he took the world’s fad diets very seriously and was clearly open to any other weight-loss methods that came along.”

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She said Ono was “the same weight as her,” so much so that they organized their walk-in closet “according to their flexible size, with store-style clothing carousels numbered by their waist measurements.”

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

Mintz told People, “They keep their various jeans and pants, whatever it may be, in various waist size categories, 28. [inches] up to 32 or more, depending on how they perceive their weight and how well the pants fit.”

In his book, Mintz recalled the first time he met Lennon and Ono in person – they lived in a home in Ojai, a city north of Los Angeles, and invited him to visit them there.

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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 tangible to eat – just a few bottles of water and bowls full of invisible and unpleasant things – things that looked like they were healthy food of some kind.”

John Lennon and Yoko Ono on Nov. 2, 1980 – the first time in five years that Lennon was photographed professionally and the last complete picture of his life. (Jack Mitchell/Getty Images)

Mintz had previously said that both Lennon and Ono were withdrawing from methadone and that one of the side effects of that was a loss of appetite, but noted that he later learned that it was “a never-ending story,” explaining, “They had unusual tastes. and rarely kept anything that seemed interesting in the refrigerators.” theirs.”

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He told Bantu, “Their refrigerator was like going into this hole of curiosity. There used to be these paper containers, suggesting that there was something left over from the night before, and you opened the container and looked inside but you couldn’t identify what it was. They were eating.”