If only the real United States Vice President could look this good on a nude Rolling Stone cover. Alas, we'll have to settle for Julia Louis-Dreyfus, star of the HBO series Veep.

Louis-Dreyfus appears on the cover of the latest issue of Rolling Stone, which hits newsstands on Friday. This is her first time gracing the cover solo; she has previously appeared alongside her Seinfeld co-stars. The 53-year-old actress, who plays Vice President Selina Meyer on the show, stripped down for the cover, but has a logical excuse for the bold move.

"I think I'm about to get some more Twitter followers...," she said via Twitter. "In my defense, 'I was in a drunken stupor' #crackexcuse ..."

The cover follows a Veep theme, dressing Louis-Dreyfus in nothing but a tattoo of the constitution. Despite being what Rolling Stone calls "The First Lady of Comedy," Louis-Dreyfus admits that the constitution does not prevent certain struggles.

"There is sexism -- I'm not denying its existence," she told the magazine. "But I'm saying that I will deny its effort against me. I just pay it no nevermind and say, 'Get out of my way.'"

Indeed it has worked as Armando Iannucci, Veep creator, says Louis-Dreyfus' unique sense of comedy got her the lead role.

"Julia's not just a natural comedic performer -- she's a natural comedic brain," he explained. "Once we have a script, she likes to go away and have a real think on what her character would do to react to the reality of every situation, if it would be funny to have her twitch, or to be thirsty, or if her mind was on something else."

Louis-Dreyfus loves the role, which has given her the freedom to curse since 2012.

"Once, when we were trying to come up with the particular perfect, horrible, swear-y thing to say in Veep, I said, 'You do realize that if we were 12, we would get in big trouble for this conversation,'" she said. "That was not part of the curriculum in high school, and the fact that it is now a part of the curriculum of my life is a pleasure, which is the understatement of the universe."

So what other perks does being a fictional vice president get you? Louis-Dreyfus has met Al Gore, who she says "did win, by the way," as well as the real Vice Presdent, Joe Biden.

"He loves to tell stories, and I'm a good listener," she said. "I loved that dinner. There was no cynicism, just a very earnest jubilation about being there."

According to a Senate aide, Veep is "way more realistic than House of Cards ... It works because it's revealing truths," but there is one non-truth floating around about Dreyfus: that she is a billionaire thanks to her father's Louis Dreyfus corporation. The company works in real estate, energy and "soybean-crushing plants," according to Rolling Stone.

"I've been attached to that," Louis-Dreyfus said. "It's unbelievable, because whatever I do, people just assume it's true. Welcome to the f*ckin' Internet."

Season 3 of Veep continues April 13 at 10:30 p.m.

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