The late John Lennon and wife Yoko Ono were obsessed with being thin, their friend says

The late John Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono, had an unhealthy obsession with “staying thin.”

“John kept a diary where he wrote down his weight every day,” the couple’s friend, Elliot Mintz, writes in excerpts from his upcoming memoir, We All Shine On: John Yoko & Me, due out Tuesday.

“Yoko and John had endless questions about it,” Mintz wrote in the book, reviewed by People magazine. “They thought everyone in Hollywood was thin and trim and that there were magic diet pills, and they insisted that I get them for them.”

Mintz notes that Lennon and Ono were disappointed that he couldn’t get them “diet pills” after they called him at 4am asking him to get them.

"Their fridge was like a curiosity pit" as it was hard to tell what exactly was in there—there were a lot of "unrecognizable" healthy foods. "Sometimes there would be these paper containers with leftovers from the night before, you'd open the container and look in and still not be able to tell what they'd eaten."