Kerry Washington Cover ELLE Magazine

How could you not be obsessed with Kerry Washington on the cover of Elle USA. The 39 year-old Actress/star couldn't be more beautiful as she graced Elle magazine. And she is working those tousled waves... Photos after the cut.

Kerry Washington wears a cotton sweatshirt from Shinola; diamond, onyx, and white gold earrings and an emerald, onyx, diamond, and white gold bracelet from Cartier; gold bracelets and a diamond and white gold bracelet from Van Cleef & Arpels; and her own ring. Styled by Samira Nasr.

For five seasons on Scandal, Kerry Washington has stockpiled TV megastardom. Now she's using it to power her most political project to date, Confirmation, the HBO biopic she not only stars in—as Anita Hill—but also executive produced.

In 1991, Anita Hill, a 35-year-old law professor at the University of Oklahoma, appeared at the confirmation hearing of Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas.  At the time, Kerry Washington was just 14 years old. But like everyone else, Washington was transfixed by the two days that followed, in which Hill calmly recounted in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee the sexual harassment she claimed to have experienced while working for Thomas a decade prior at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

In the April issue of ELLE, Washington talks about everything from how she's handling motherhood to why she feels it's important to create work for herself instead of putting her artistic destiny in someone else's hands to the reason Anita Hill's story matters today.