premise: A Washington Post piece bathed her in golden  She hopes to go to graduate school in sociology, she's scrimping because she doesn't want to burden her parents financially, she is so much a hostage to the media that she couldn't attend her own mom's wedding, and--the icing on the cake--she has taken up knitting.
hypothesis: She didn't want to put the financial burden on her parents so she took to scrimping and extreme saving.