How did this absolute prick come to prominence?
I agree with everything that PPs have said on the topic and would also flag a very simple fact - she was good looking and SB was a gorgeous toddler. She and he photographed very well and made for striking early photos - her cheekbones, good figure, cute baby, her big eyes defiantly staring out at the reader under the headlines about not being able to afford food and heating. That kind of thing is a gift to a pictures editor and would ensure a prominent place for the story in the paper.
Had she been plain looking, overweight or otherwise not meeting the exacting standards of what some newspaperman thinks 'poor and sexy' looks like, then her story would have been relegated to the back pages and quickly forgotten.
Would Greta Thunberg have been adopted as the prophetess of climate change if she'd been an ugly middle aged bloke (also helpful that her dad ran a PR firm of course)? Would Julian Assange have become, for a while, a symbol of cyber rebellion and sticking it to the man if he hadn't looked like a human anime hero with a floppy fringe?
Looks are
everything in the media. Jack never acknowledges this privilege (although she does slyly flaunt it, whilst telling us all how low her self esteem is).