You’re over complicating a simple fact.
She slept her way to the where she is. It’s no harder than that.
There’s a fairly good chance that was part of her motivation, but you, I, the writer and likely Greasy Willy don’t really know.
That is why I say the article would be more effective if the facts were laid out and readers could draw their own conclusions. This unsubstantiated claim just invites the challenge to prove it. Unnecessarily.