The 26-year-old actress, who shot to fame at the age of 16 with the hit TV show, said that she has been able to escape brutality in Hollywood unlike some of her fellow stars like Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan, reported OK! magazine.
"The people in my life are so over the celebrity lifestyle. They're not the kind of people to read the gossip press. Getting caught up in that young Hollywood is not my vibe.
"I'm ready to go and get a farm and live in the middle of nowhere. I'm pretty proud of the person I've become in the past few years, considering what I've been through. I have a great support network. I don't think that the Parises and Lindsays have the same kind of support network," she said.
Barton is now based in London and although her career decisions haven't always gone to plan she is thankful for what she has achieved.
"I'm not a spoilt person. I wake up every day and I'm thankful for what I have. Yeah, there are days when I'm so depressed and crying and I'm thinking about the press and about, 'Oh I lost this project to so and so', and that seems very unfair because I'm just as qualified. But that's life, I guess," she added.
