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John Lennon and Yoko Ono have been obsessive about their weight, based on a brand new e book by their shut pal Elliot Mintz.
Mintz, 79, was a Los Angeles-based radio and TV presenter who turned near the couple within the early Seventies. He has written a memoir about their time collectively, We All Shine On: John, Yoko & Me, which hit cabinets on October 22.
Talking to People, Mintz recalled that the Beatles co-founder, who was murdered in 1980, and Ono have been each “obsessive about staying skinny.”
“John stored a journal the place every day he would write what his weight was,” he continued. “Yoko and John had infinite questions on this topic.”
Mintz recalled the couple unsuccessfully urging him to search out them “slimming capsules” that will assist them keep skinny. “They thought that everyone in Hollywood was slim and trim and that there have been magic slimming capsules,” defined Mintz. “And insisted I get that for them.”
He additionally remembered that Lennon and Ono organized their massive wardrobe of garments “based on waist dimension.”
“They stored their numerous denims and pantsuits, no matter it is perhaps, in several classes of waist dimension, 28 [inches] reaching to 32 or so, relying on how they perceived their weight and the way tight the pants match,” says Mintz.
We All Shine On: John, Yoko, and Me by Elliot Mintz is out now.
Earlier this yr, Ono offered a serious retrospective of her artwork work in London titled, “Music of the Thoughts”.
In a four-star evaluation, The Impartial’s Mark Hudson wrote: “Practically six a long time into her typically vexed relationship with the British public, Yoko Ono stays a baffling determine. Let’s not even begin on the query of whether or not the Japanese avant-garde artist who married John Lennon did, in reality, ‘break up The Beatles.’
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“Many – if not most – of the possibly massive viewers for Tate Trendy’s new retrospective will nonetheless be unclear as as to if Ono is a genuinely important artist or a pretentious charlatan. Is she a wide-eyed utopian as she presents herself, or a barely sinister, manipulative determine? This thought-provoking present goes loads additional in direction of answering these questions than I anticipated.”
For anybody fighting the problems raised on this piece, consuming dysfunction charity Beat’s helpline is offered 12 months a yr on 0808 801 0677.
NCFED gives info, assets and counselling for these affected by consuming issues, in addition to their help networks. Go to eating-disorders.org.ukor name 0845 838 2040.
