Michelle was born in Marshalltown, Iowa in 1979. When she was 3 her parents moved to Mexico. Even though she knows Spanish as if it were her first language she never forgot English and she does not want to. She got her first big break in to acting when she was cast in "Mi pequeña traviesa" (1998) where she first met her husband 'Hector Soberon' .

According to several news magazines in Mexico there is an allegedly nude video of Michelle Vieth. One video is said to be from her honeymoon back on 1999 first just laying down in bed, and then coming out of the shower with just a towel wrapped around her head. The second video is said to be suppossedly in 2000 having sex with another man.