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JFK struggled to keep weight on from an early age, according to a new book, Becoming JFK

He was so skinny, the author writes he sent away for "Charles Atlas" workouts, once found in the back of comic books to help "scrawny weaklings"

The book also shares how Hollywood actress Olivia de Havilland rejected his advances in 1945

More than five decades after JFK’s death, the 35th president continues to fascinate.

A new book, Becoming JFK : John F. Kennedy's Early Path to Leadership by Scott Badler, explores the years before Kennedy became a political superstar, everything from health struggles and inability to keep on weight to his complicated relationship with his older brother, Joe Jr. and, says the author, “how a young, often reckless Jack began to channel his char

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