#Portland protester ‘Naked Athena’ speaks out: ‘I am notoriously naked’

The Portland protester dubbed “Naked Athena” for her full-frontal face-off with cops says the display was entirely off the cuff — and felt “like being in the eye of the storm.”

The cheeky demonstrator gave an interview to a Portland-based podcast, where she identified herself as a sex worker in her 30s named “Jen” — and said being nude in public is common for her, reported local newspaper Willamette Week on Sunday.

“I am notoriously naked,” Jen told the podcast “Unrefined Sophisticates.”

The woman made headlines earlier this month when she was photographed waltzing between officers and protesters — in only a face mask and hat — during a standoff in Portland.

Baring it all was “Really calm and terrifying at the same time,” she said.

“It’s like being in the eye of the storm.”

“Jen” said no planning and not much thought went into the exhibition, just that she felt “provoked and fired up” when she saw the phalanx of officers standing “like they’re warriors, and they’re not.”

“This fury arose in me… and I said I want to be naked, I want to confront them,” she said on the podcast.

“I’m a sex worker. My nakedness is political and it is my expression.”

Her partner, who was with her, said “I’ll hold your clothes,” as she went in a doorway and “took everything off, except for my mask and my hat because it’s cold,” she recalled.

Video posted on social media showed the woman pacing the sidewalk, before sitting down and launching into a series of what appeared to be yoga and ballet poses.

She explained the moves were actually in part the result of being shot in the foot by a crowd-control projectile.

Asked about the mythical nickname bestowed on her she said “I didn’t give myself that name,” but admitted, “it’s catchy.”

“Jen” said “other than my feminine response of wanting to show them what my version of vulnerability looks like,” that her message was: “we’re all out here, these protesters, [and] the only thing we have in common is we have masks on and we’re out here at night.”

“None of these people have weapons. Empty their pockets, take off their clothes—nobody has weapons here,” she said.

“I just wanted them to see what they’re shooting at.”