Kerry Washington looks adorable on the cover of The EDIT

The Scandal star looks stunning on the cover of Net-A-Porter.com's The EDIT, and in the accompanying feature, she admits that nothing not even childbirth will stop her from live-tweeting the ABC series.

"Every Thursday within three weeks of my [daughter Isabelle's] due date, I loaded up pre-tweets based on the episodes and what I would want to say. I tweeted in the very early stages of my labor. I figured that if I went completely silent on social media, then people would know I was in the hospital!" she says.

If she weren't an actress, Washington "would be involved in politics, butt I would probably be teaching."

"It's what my mother did, so it's in my blood. My mother is so badass. I watched her get her doctorate when I was a little girl: she got that around the same time that I graduated from kindergarten so we both had caps and gowns," says the Django Unchained actress, who was born and raised in New York City. "I grew up with a belief in the importance of a woman's mind and that has been a real gift for me." see another photo below….