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'How I Met Your Mother' star Neil Patrick Harris says he and partner would
'make good parents'
Monday, September 14th 2009, 4:00 AM
Sara Jaye Weiss
Neil Patrick Harris says
he and his partner, actor David Burtka, would make good parents.
Forget Doogie Howser,
M.D. -- try Doogie Howser, D.A.D.
Former teen star Neil Patrick
Harris says having kids with his partner, actor David Burtka, is not
out of the question.
"We'd make very good parents," Harris, 36, told New York magazine in a
cover story that hits newsstands this week.
Though they're not legally married, Harris considers himself something of a
stepfather to Burtka's twins, describing himself as "the fun guy who takes them
to Disneyland."
"We yin and yang very well," he said of Burtka. "I'm just bowled over by
him," he said. "He's made my life exponentially more livable."
Harris was thrust into the spotlight at age 16 as the star of "Doogie Howser,
M.D.," a hit sitcom about a teenage doctor.
He had various roles on screen and stage in his 20s, then landed a role in
the Broadway hit "Rent" in 1997. In 2005 he took the role of Barney Stinson in
the CBS hit "How I Met Your
Mother."
Unlike other gay leads, Harris has managed to thrive in roles as straight -
even womanizing - men. It wasn't until 2006 that he came out publicly.
"No one was ever old-school Hollywood, with a cigar
in their mouth, saying 'You can't do this, see! It will ruin your career, kid,'"
he joked.
"So long as you're representing yourself well, you're making good choices for
good reasons, all of the circumstantial things will vanish."