Friend of John Lennon and Yoko Ono reveals their surprising obsession: 'Endless questions'

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Levy For Dailymail.com Published: 03:34, 21 October 2024 | Updated: 03:34, 21 October 2024 e-mail View comments The late John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono had an unhealthy obsession with body image and were 'obsessed with staying skinny,' according to a one-time confidante. 'John kept a journal where each day he would write what his weight was,' the pair's friend Elliot Mintz, 79, said in excerpts of his upcoming memoir We All Shine On: John Yoko & Me, which is set to be released Tuesday.

'Yoko and John had endless questions about this subject,' Mintz wrote in the book, which was reviewed by People . '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, a media consultant, was close with the couple in the decade leading to Lennon's shocking murder at the age of 40 on December 8, 1980 in New York City , at the hands of obsessed fan Mark David Chapman .

Mintz initially crossed paths with the famous pair during his time as an announcer for radio and TV based out of Los Angeles , once conducting an interview with Ono, 91, about her 1971 record Fly. The late John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono, pictured in 1980, had an unhealthy obsession with body image and .