She was born in San Francisco, California and moved to Oahu, Hawaii when she was eight years old, her father's home state.
She appears on the album cover of Robert Palmer's Some People Can Do What They Like (1976), playing strip poker with Palmer and has numerous modeling credits outside of Playboy, including Almond Joy, Pan Am and Calavo.
She is married to American film director David Kellogg.
They have two boys and a girl and reside in Hidden Hills, California, as of July 1999[update].
[1] Michele also appeared in television commercials and the film Three on a Date in 1978, the Hawaii Five-O episode "Nine Dragons" (1976) and The Jeffersons in 1985.