Personal Life
In the early 1990s, Meg White worked as a bartender at Memphis Smoke, a restaurant in downtown Royal Oak (a Detroit suburb), where she first met musician/songwriter John Anthony Gillis. They were married on September 21, 1996. Gillis chose to take her last name, and has subsequently become famous by the name Jack White. They were divorced on March 24, 2000.
Meg White is by her own admission "very shy", and gives few interviews. She guards her privacy in a manner that she identifies with Bob Dylan, whom she admires. In her time away from the band, Meg enjoys photography and amateur taxidermy. Animals are also a motif in her photography (mainly album covers and music videos). Among those photographed with her are a snake, rats (the video for "Hotel Yorba" and the back cover of Elephant), a cow, rabbits, and raccoons (the 7 inch cover of the "Denial Twist" single).
On September 11, 2007, the White Stripes were forced to cancel 18 tour dates due to Meg White's acute anxiety. The following day, these problems caused the duo to cancel the remainder of their 2007 UK tour dates as well. She recovered and appeared onstage during an encore set at a Detroit show with The Raconteurs in June 2008.
In May 2009, Meg White married guitarist Jackson Smith, son of musicians Patti Smith and Fred "Sonic" Smith. The wedding took place in Nashville, Tennessee, in a small ceremony in Jack White's backyard. Also married at the same ceremony was Jack's fellow Raconteurs bandmate Jack Lawrence to his girlfriend Jo McCaughey.
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