TV’s hottest fixer sizzles bathing suit on the August cover of Vanity Fair.

Bronx-born beauty Kerry Washington — who’s been turning heads as DC crisis manager Olivia Pope on ABC’s “Scandal” — opens up to the magazine about what it means to play an “aspirational” woman of color.

“One of the most profound things for me . . . is the number of white women . . . who come up to me to say, ‘I want to be Olivia Pope,’ ” the actress says. “What I think is cool about Olivia is that she fully owns being a woman.”