OLIVERAS, Athena E.

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ATHENA ELYSE OLIVERAS Athena Elyse Oliveras (born 07/26/1989) is an American supermodel, businesswoman, and occasional actress. Daughter of retired professional surfer, Beau Oliveras, and former supermodel Elsie French Oliveras. She was the 2011, 2012, and 2013 Sports Illustrated Swimsuite Issue cover model, and was voted #1 on GQ's Hot 100 list of 2012. Notoriously known for catapulting from covers of swim issues to Vogue, CR, ID, and various other publications. Oliveras recently married high school sweetheart and LA Kings left wing Jameson Polshuk.

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- Why does Athena Oliveras hate Genevieve Morton?

your signature: Bikinis, lots of them.
your coffee order: Grande mocha, two extra shots.
your go-to magazine: Always the one with the best cover.
your favorite brand: Currently.... Jason Wu. Jk then Paris FW happened.
your ultimate goal: Already conquered them. Next up, American Vogue.

I absolutely don't understand: The paparazzi's fixation with capturing every single move.
I've always looked up to: Rihanna, or Bella Cullen.
I'm most likely to feud with: Serious question?
I'm starting to pay attention to: Sugar counts.
I've always wanted to hook up with: Edward Cullen.
I wonder what it's like to be: Bella Cullen.

"Be ready for it. If you’re not, it will eat you alive. Between your agent, photographers, editors, designers, someone is always going to hate you. You’re not always going to be thin enough, you’re not always going to have a great hair day, you’ll have days where you can’t connect with the camera. Work just a little bit harder then. Be yourself, and find your place. Don’t follow someone else’s footsteps; etch your own path, as cliché as that may sound. There’s already a Gisele, Kate Moss, Adriana Lima, Cindy Crawford, make your own name, no one will outdo them, but with enough dedication you can put yourself in the same category. And have a personality, there are a million pretty faces in the world, a lot of younger ones that will do the job for a lot less too, so have that something special."

what, if anything, keeps you grounded?

To be honest, it takes a lot. I grew up with a mom who had no idea how to keep herself grounded, so there was no chance at a peaceful childhood I can look back to, or quiet home away, since I was a baby in Hawaii, then it turned into New York, Paris, Milan, LA.. So I guess at this point my husband, – which still feels surreal saying! – coming home to him, and the puppies, then a nice day in bed with no other obligations, that always brings me back down to a perfect, perfect reality.

would you rather relive your best moment or redo your worst mistake?

Easy. My best moment. Who wouldn’t want to be proposed to by the love of their life time and again?

where's your escape from the city?

An old high school roof top. Just a few miles out side the city, just high enough to overlook it all. You can take in the beauty of it all but you can unwind for a second up there, bring yourself back to a better head place. I like to consider it all mine and Jameson's, like we discovered it, and are the only ones to know about it. 

what are you like when you're out of the spotlight?

I like to think I'm the same both in and out of it. I think it's important in this industry to stay true to yourself, and not to put on a show, no matter what other people are telling you to do. Right when I'd started modeling, my agent told me what to say, how to act, where to go, all of it.. it lasted for a few months, and I realized I wasn't an actress, and it's not about putting on some big act. When you do things that way you start building up too many relationships under all of these false pretenses. So yea, I'd generally say the same. If anything though, I'm a bit more low key. I don't wake up and have someone do my hair and make up, and wear my heels around the house.

how do you think your team would describe working with you?

The teams are always changing up, depending on who I'm shooting or filming for. My personal team though.. Mae, my agent, Shelly, my make up artist, and Jason, my hair stylist, we're always having a good time. I think they'd say it depends on the day though. They've been with me since day one, so they've bared with me through it all. The good and the bad days. Every sleepless night or early morning I've had, at least one of them shared it. Those good days, they'd say I'm a natural, and professional. The bad ones on the other hand, they'd say things turned diva. That's the good part about such a tight knit team though, they know to laugh it off and I'll be back to normal eventually!

were there any deciding moments in your career?

It's one of those things where I can look back and say it was one thing, and a year before that I thought it was something else, and so on. My first Sports Illustrated cover is one definite deciding factor. Don't get me wrong, my modeling career started off just fine, no thanks to my mom and my agency. But after that cover I felt like it was the first time I was Athena Oliveras, not Elsie French's daughter. Interviews and the press cared more about who I was, than what it was like to be her and Beau's daughter. It became challenging though for awhile after the heat of the cover died down, kind of like what do you do when you've already reached your career goal. And Mae, the best friend and agent a girl could ask for, and I decided we might put a whole new spin on it. The spin being ads and campaigns and shoots wearing a bit more than a string bikini or lacy La Perla set. So then I got my first Vogue cover, and that felt deciding. And after that came another Vogue, and another, and W, and Bazaar, and CR. It almost became a joke, seeing which I could get next. In 2012, I had at least one cover for every single month of the year, Sports Illustrated included, for the second year. The agency said I brought back the "supermodel" whatever that means, and there was one more deciding moment. But now that I got the third cover, and joined Elle Macpherson ranks, it's deciding all over again. Do you see what I'm saying? 

any inside details on your latest project?

Saying so would be a breach of contract, my lips are sealed.

father: Beau Oliveras
mother: Elsie French Oliveras
siblings: Sebastian Oliveras
other: Jameson Polshuk, husband

Jeremy Polshuk, father-in-law
Ella Polshuk, mother-in-law
Chloe Polshuk, sister-in-law
Jordan Polshuk, brother-in-law
Emma Polshuk, sister-in-law
Elise Polshuk, sister-in-law

Piper, Siberian Husky
Rogie, Golden Retriever/Labrador
Howie, American Bulldog



I don't really know where to begin when it comes to telling you about my family. I mean, what is there you don't already know? But I'll try my best. My dad, more comfortably known as Beau, he was did a lot of surfing back in his day.. he tries to tell me he was as good as it got, but I think he's lying a little bit, even if my mom, or Elsie, tries to back him up. As for her, she used to model quite a bit, which I only believe because she's got her favorite pictures of herself hung throughout her closet. So as you could have guessed.. they eventually had my brother and I. We were born in Oahu, and were there for a little while. I knew we had a lot, since we were always traveling, and I mean always. I had a fairy tale themed bedroom in Paris, that was my favorite! But we had places all over, different beaches around the world, New York, LA, London, you name it. But we pretty much steadily grew up in LA, and went to school there and what not. It wasn't weird to me though, the cameras, and the attention. I caught on to that really young. There were always guys at the beach asking for my Beau's autograph, ladies asking Elsie for pictures on the streets in New York and Paris. So I get that it seems like it must have been hard growing up in such a public eye, but it's all I've ever really known. It didn't bother me much in high school, I think they had better things to pay attention to. So things were pretty easy then, I did things I thought were typical.. even though they may not have been to the majority of the word. But I went out with my friends, went to school, met a really amazing boy - all seemingly normal things! It wasn't until Summer after my Senior year that I realized people, for some odd reason, cared about what I was doing. Jameson and I had just broken up, and a friend called me and told me to go on TMZ, and there were all the rumor filled excused about our break up. I was baffled, I didn't really realize they even know him and I were dating.. but I guess that's where it began for me, you know.. realizing it wasn't just my parents people cared about anymore. That made things difficult for a second my Freshman year of College. Everyone in LA wants to be famous, or they are, but it was awkward going into classes with people who knew so much about me when I knew not even their names! To top it off, I was still getting over my break up. Which was made harder by it never being proper, we still pretty much talked a decent amount, saw each other around, would make one too many drunken calls leading to one too many drunken nights together. So it was kind of impossible to move on, but I tried.. even though I didn't want to. I started seeing this guy Nicholas, such an asshole, I don't know what I was thinking. But I was wrapped up in living the College life for a second, and it just happened. He was using me for a lot of things, but I guess I was using him to kind of make Jameson miss me more! Pathetic now that I think about it, but that was where it all got sketchy. I started walking on eggshells, I couldn't really trust a lot of people. Selling things to the media, or even putting up pictures of their Facebooks which could make me look bad! But my mom told me that people were always going to talk, so I couldn't really let it ruin my life. So I stopped, got myself back on track, ended that, and decided if I had enough free time for a boyfriend, I could take up more of the modeling offers, and things like that. After a few big shoots, I realized how much I loved it, way more than I loved a bunch of gen ed classes trying to figure out what I wanted to do with my life. So eventually, I took the semester off. It was meant to only be the semester, to focus on modeling and pursuing that permanently, but around the same time.. things with Jameson were changing. Like I said, we had never really properly broke up. You know, cut off all forms of communication, genuinely move on, etc. But it wasn't how it was right after we broke up, where it seemed like everything was up in the air. We realized we were older, could make it work again, and I knew after being broken up that I didn't really want to be with anyone but him, so we unofficially began working on things again. There were rules, which were dumb, and my idea. I thought they'd work, and prepare us for if we wanted to really give it another shot. And I must say, they did prepare us. We got back together in December of that year. And despite my dramatic breakups, over him not wanting to get up to get me a water, or you know, Paulina Gretzky, we never really split again. There were plenty of naysayers, waiting around for the next break up. But instead, they got a ring on my finger. And a little under a year later, in late May, they got our wedding. Only they only were left with their ideas, because I made sure that if anything in my life was going to be private, the most important day of my life was well worth it.

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