John Lennon and Yoko Ono were "obsessed" with staying thin, according to "We All Shine On: John, Yoko, & Me" author Elliot Mintz, a close friend of the two.

Former Los Angeles radio and TV announcer Elliot Mintz, who was close friends with Lennon and Ono, claimed how they were “obsessed with staying skinny” in his memoir “We All Shine On: John Yoko & Me,” out Tuesday.

Their closet was organized according to waist size, says Elliot Mintz, whose new book 'We All Shine On', out Oct. 22, shares intimate stories from his close friendship with John Lennon and Yoko Oko.

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Yoko Ono’s “advisers” warned her that John Lennon was “in danger” in the lead up to his assassination in New York, a close friend said. Elliot Mintz described The Beatles star as his “best friend” and worked as a publicist for his estate after his death in 1980.

A former broadcaster who was close friends with John Lennon and Yoko Ono in the decade before Lennon’s 1980 murder said the lithe couple were “obsessed with staying skinny.” Elliot Mintz, who hosted several radio and television programs in Los Angeles and first met Ono when he interviewed her for her 1971 album Fly,