Meet Playmate Michelle Weisstuch, the brunette with hypnotic green eyes and that rare kind of presence that doesn’t try to get attention… it just holds it. Effortless, magnetic, a little bit old-school in the best way, she feels like she stepped out of a sun-faded European film.
For her July 2025 Playboy USA feature, shot by Ana Dias, Michelle landed in the Alentejo, Portugal, inside a secluded house where summer hits differently. A pool reflecting harsh golden light, faded yellows, deep blues, and that slow, heavy heat that makes everything feel suspended. Days blur into small, intimate moments. Lying by the pool, skin still warm from the sun. Cooling off under a garden hose, laughing as the water breaks the silence. A Perna de Pau popsicle melting way too fast in her hand. Nothing staged. Just moments happening as they are.
“It was all very easy,” Michelle says. “Nothing forced, nothing overthought… just warm, real, and kind of perfect.”
Beyond the camera, Michelle has worked alongside Indigenous communities in the Amazon rainforest, an experience that has taken her far beyond the world of modeling and deeply shaped the way she sees life. “This project was born from my personal experiences of deep transformation, purification, and learning what it means to connect from the heart, to life, to people, and to myself.”
Those experiences continue to influence her outlook. “Everything is a mirror,” she says. “Nature is a great teacher that brings you back into presence, quiets the noise of the modern world, and guides you home.”
The same sense of presence carries into her work in front of the camera. Michelle doesn’t perform for the lens, she simply lives the moment.
First published in Playboy USA Winter 2025 Issue
Also published in Playboy Czech Republic July 2026 Issue
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Model: Michelle Weisstuch; Photographer: Ana Dias; Executive Producer: Gonçalo Jorge; Playboy Editor-in-Chief: Mike Guy; Creative Director: Smiley Stevens; Creative Project Manager: Alicen Lewis; Director of Operations: Maryanne Tongko; Makeup & Hair: Cláudia Fonseca – Team Raquel Batalha; Assistants: Gonçalo Ferreira, Pedro Rebelo; Logistics & On-Set Support: Eva Pinto; Camera Operator: Pedro Barradas; Video Editor: Filipe Figueiredo
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