Fresh Faces: Viva Athena

Viva Athena is featured in the March 2020 issue of AVN magazine. Click here to see the digital edition. Photo by Keith Ryan. Viva Athena, also known as just Athena, is young (23) and highly sexual, with an exotic allure that sets her apart from the starlet pack. Born and raised in Hong Kong, she came to the U.S. at 14 and went to college in Iowa, where she’s lived for the past six years. But she’s been commuting to Los Angeles for porn work ever since she signed with Foxxx Modeling late last year. “I did camming on and off when I was 18. And then early this year I got a PornHub and X-Video account and started uploading videos of me and my husband.” (They have an open marriage.) “Then I thought, hmmm, I’m kind of interested in mainstream porn, I’d like to try that, it looks like fun. So I reached out to several agencies and Foxxx was the first one to reach back.” Athena’s mother is Filipina, her father Pakistani, and she speaks Mandarin, Cantonese, Tagalog as well as English and Spanish. She visits Hong Kong several times a year. “My sister’s there, I have friends there. It’s my home. Even though here is my home too.” She plans to relocate to Las Vegas sometime this year. Away from the camera she loves doing origami. “I’m also a graphic designer. I do a lot of graphics work. I’m also working for friends who are starting out their business, figuring out brand names, designing their packages.” And why porn? “I love sex, I love coming, that’s the first thing. I appreciate it because it’s performance art. It is a performance you’re putting on.” Sounds like she wants to keep doing it. “Right. Until I can’t.” Book Viva Athena through FoxxxModeling.com. Find her on AVN Stars, and follow her online on Twitter and at VivaAthena.com. Click here for photos of Viva Athena at AVN's Talent Night.