Following the Pele tour, Tori discovered she was pregnant and was, "over the moon about it". Devastatingly, only 3 months into the pregnancy she had a miscarriage. She has talked in several interviews how it affected her and inspired a lot of the songs on her 4th album, "From The Choirgirl Hotel", released in May 1998 - which would later debut at No. 5. "The songs started coming not long after I miscarried. The strange thing is, the love doesn't go away for this being that you've carried. You can't go back to being the person you were before you carried life. And yet you're not a mother, either, and you still are connected to a force, a being. And I was trying to find ways to keep the communication going, along the way on the search, sort of walking with the undead, I would run into these songs. The one thing they kept saying to me was I had to find a deep woman's rhythm. You begin to create where you can. If you can't create physical life, you find a life force. If that's music, that's in the music. I started to find this deep, primitive rhythm, and started to move to it. And I held hands with sorrow, and I danced with her, and we giggled a bit. And this record really became about being alive enough to feel things, no matter what it is."

Quite to everyone's surprise, in March 1998, Tori was wed to British sound engineer Mark Hawley. It was at his Cornwall, England, studio that she recorded Choirgirl. The couple were married at a medieval castle in the U.K. After touring nonstop for the release of "From the Choirgirl Hotel", Tori decided to take a break from recording original material and decided to start a 3 cd project which would include hard-to-find b-sides and material from past singles and bootlegs. But, after getting in the studio and getting on a roll, the plan was modified to include live material recorded during the "Plugged 98" Tour and all-new songs, on 2 discs. Also to her fans' delight, she embarked on the 5 1/2 Weeks Tour with Alanis Morrisette which lasted from August 18th and ended in L.A on September 25th. "To Venus and Back" her 5th and most recent album was released in late 1999. On September 5th, 2000, Tori gave birth to her first child, a daughter, and all three are doing fine. Upon feeding her daughter for the 1st time, she noted that, "An ounce of breast milk is even more potent then the finest tequilla".


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