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Athena Fleurs once decorated 90 cakes a day during her stint as a cake decorator.
“I had to be there at 3 a.m. because the place opens at 5,” she says of the Safeway grocery store where she worked in the bakery. “I had to complete 30 cakes by 5 a.m.
“I had lot of caffeine and a lot of nicotine at that point in my life.”
She added the final touches to dozens of birthday cakes and a fair amount of divorce cakes, too, writing “Congratulations!” several times a day with icing.
But Fleurs grew to dislike the job and went back to exotic dancing.
“It was stupid,” she says with a laugh. “I was just there during Covid. It was also hard. It was so much work and I got paid so much less than I was used to.”
Now Fleurs is one of the rising stars at Motley Models, which recognized her potential and signed her earlier this year.
Since then the flirty blonde performer says everything has gotten sweeter.
“Athena has been such a great talent since coming on board,” Motley owner Dave Rock tells AVN. “She has an amazing work ethic, super professional demeanor and a mainstream modeling quality that the studios are really eating up.
“We anticipate her to be a major force in the biz for a long time and we are honored to represent her.”
Fleurs, who at press time was planning to move from Sacramento to the Orange County area of Southern California, tells AVN she has done about 55 scenes since her debut last September.
Some of her credits include multiple outings for Vixen Media Group, Evil Angel, Hustler, Team Skeet, Nubiles and Spankmonster. She points to her encounter with Oliver Flynn for Hard X as her favorite so far.
“I liked working with a female director,” she says, referring to the veteran shot-caller Mason. “I had never worked with a female director before that so that was just different to me.”
She also enjoyed mixing it up with the seasoned deal-closer Flynn.
“I knew who he was but I had never shot with him before,” Athena says. “He’s cool. He makes everyone feel very comfortable on set.”
The 22-year-old native of Monterey, Calif., most recently danced at Gold Club Centerfolds in Sacramento. She’s been a dancer off and on for more than four years at clubs in northern California.
“I have done it since I was 17,” she says. “I don’t know if I like it or it’s just all I know.”
Athena started dancing in the Bay Area—where a fellow entertainer referred her to her first porn agent.
Also known as Athena at the strip clubs, she worked at Vanity in San Francisco and then at the Spearmint Rhino in San Jose.
Now when she’s not working, she likes to play her acoustic guitar and cook. Fleurs can make almost anything from scratch—she’s especially good at cooking pasta and she can make mayonnaise from scratch.
Athena chose to keep her dancer name for adult work because she wanted a name that begins with A.
And she says Fleurs is the French word for flowers.
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