Tika Sumpter has been steaming up the small screen lately with sexy roles on Gossip Girl and The Game, and Esquire magazine proves she’s just as hot in real life.  

Sumpter posed in her favorite lingerie and shared some of her bedroom secrets in a shoot for the magazine’s “Me in My Place” feature that gave an intimate look at the actress in her New York apartment, no binoculars required.

“I love any kind of boy shorts. They make every girl's legs look amazing and their butts look great,” she said. “I walk around my house like that anyway—kind of like nothing. If I could walk around like that every day outside, I would.”

Although she’s snapped in a nice selection of unmentionables, Tika admitted that she doesn’t usually reach for lingerie when it’s time to get down with the get down: “I mean, I do have sexy stuff. But I've tried that for somebody else, and I was like, ‘What am I doing?’ You put on the black lace thigh-highs and the little tiny stuff that connects with other things and you're like, ‘How does this even go? How do I put this on?’”

To combat any underwear mishaps, she said she usually wears “nothing” to bed.

Head over to esquire.com to see more pictures and the rest of Tika Sumpters bedroom confessions.

(Photo: Esquire, May 2011)