Like her husband, Elaine LaLanne spent her early years as a junk food junkie, living on chocolate doughnuts, candy, hot dogs, ice cream, and sodas from vending machines.

Elaine was 25 at the time she met Jack, working as the host and talent booker for the well known Les Malloy Show at ABC-TV affiliate station KGO in San Francisco, California.

It was there where Elaine first met Jack, who said to her, "you need to start eating apples, oranges, and bananas, and if I didn't like you, I wouldn’t be telling you this."

Elaine looked up at Jack while puffing on a cigarette, chomping on a sugar doughnut and said, "oh yeah?"^[0]