Cara Michelle Bio
Cara Michelle is an American actress, glamour and nude model. Born Cara Michelle Meschter on February 1, 1978, in Honolulu, Hawaii, she has also been credited as Cara Meschter. Playboy named her its December 2000 Playmate at 22. Her appearance came in the 2000s, as Playboy's print tradition began to share space with an expanding online presence.
Michelle has natural breasts, brown eyes and brown hair. Her measurements are 34-26-36.
Cara Michelle began modeling unusually young, starting at fourteen and working in New York before taking assignments farther afield. Her early career eventually brought her to Milan, Greece and Istanbul, giving her international modeling experience well before Playboy entered the picture. Raised on the Hawaiian island of Molokai, she came from a very different environment than the fashion capitals where she later worked.
Her education was equally unconventional. Michelle spent only one year in a traditional high school setting and was otherwise home-schooled, later earning a liberal arts degree from Fisher College in Boston. At the same time, she maintained the restless approach to life that Playboy captured in her own words: she said she rarely stayed anywhere longer than six months and preferred to experience as much as possible while she was young.
At 6'2", Michelle also brought an uncommon physical presence to modeling. Playboy identified her as the tallest Playmate in the magazine’s history, a distinction that naturally complemented a career already built around fashion work. Her path from Hawaii to New York and then Los Angeles eventually led to Playboy, adding a major American magazine credit to the international assignments she had already accumulated.
Michelle also moved briefly into film. She had small roles in the comedies Bedazzled and Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles, extending her work beyond still photography and fashion. Those appearances fit the broader pattern of a career that rarely stayed fixed in one place or one format for long.
Travel remained central to the way Michelle described herself. Growing up on Molokai had given her a background in surfing, sailing and outdoor life, while modeling took her through several countries and major cities. By the time Playboy featured her, her story was already one of continual movement—from a small Hawaiian island to international fashion work, college study, Los Angeles and film—closely matching her own philosophy of trying opportunities rather than postponing them.
