NEW You can now listen to Fox News articles! "The Thorn Birds" star Rachel Ward candidly opened up about leaving Hollywood behind to become a farmer in Australia . Born to an aristocratic family in Britain, Ward, now 68, launched a successful modeling career across London, Paris and New York City before moving to Los Angeles in the early 1980s to pursue acting. However, during a recent episode of the Australia Broadcasting Company (ABC)'s docuseries "Australian Story," War explained that she quickly became disillusioned with the entertainment in LA and the roles that she was being offered. "You soon find it's a very vacuous place to inhabit … it's very empty and it's very unsatisfying," Ward said. "I was just make-up, I was fantasy." "The Thorn Birds" star Rachel Ward reflected on leaving "vacuous" Hollywood behind for farm life in Australia.…