Scandalous: Kerry Washington Is Smoking Hot On Cover Of Glamour Magazine [Photos]

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Kerry Washington covers Glamour’s October issus, poses for a series of stunning shots inside.

Kerry Washington does not kiss and tell on-or-off screen.

The 36-year-old star flawlessly covered the October issue of Glamour magazine and kept her lips sealed when it came to dishing about her personal life.

“I learned through experience that it doesn’t work for me to talk about my personal life. I’ve had earlier times in my career when I did talk about it. I was on the cover of a bridal magazine [InStyle Weddings, in 2005, when she was engaged to actor David Moscow],” she shared.

“But I couldn’t just turn around and say, ‘I only want to talk about the good stuff, but not the bad stuff.’ So I just thought, ‘OK, no more.'”

The “Scandal” actress, who plays the ultimate fixer Olivia Pope on the ABC hit show, married football player Nnamdi Asmugha in a secret wedding this summer.

“I’m walking around in the world with my ring. And when people say congratulations, I say thank you. But I’m going to continue to not talk about it and just let it unfold,” she said on the surprise union.

Even though Washington choses to stay mum about herself, she does not judge those in the Hollywood scene that do talk about their love lives.

“I don’t want to sound smug about it…but the point is to do what’s best for me. I have girlfriends in this business, who talk about their personal lives, and it works for them, and I love it. But not for me.”

Despite the fact that the Emmy-nominated starlet topped Vanity Fair’s International best dressed list this year, she claimed she wasn’t always a fashionista.

“It started out as, like, Good-Student Kerry. OK, I’m going to admit this: There were a couple of actresses whom I felt were having the upper hand career wise-because they knew how to work that red carpet. I was like, ‘I’m missing a really important tool. If I am the CEO of the Kerry Washington Corporation, my marketing department is really lax.’ So I sort of developed a new character: Red-Carpet Kerry.”

Washington’s alter-ego’s employees on screen are called her gladiators but she goes on to tell the mag she has some real-life gladiators as well.

“My [gladiators are my] closest girlfriends from college, and I’m really close to the girls on the show. It’s a sisterhood.… That’s the big thing that really differentiates me from Olivia: She compartmentalizes her relationships. I really try to let my friends into all of my life. They know that Red-Carpet Kerry is a version of Kerry, and they know that DNC Speaker Kerry is me.”

The highly anticipated season 3 of “Scandal” premieres Oct. 3 on ABC.