Tatiana Schlossberg reveals terminal cancer diagnoses as granddaughter of JFK says she has less than one year left to live according to essay published in the New Yorker which she writes about the shock, fears, struggles and hopes.
Tatiana Schlossberg, an environmental journalist and the granddaughter of President John F. Kennedy, over the weekend shared that she has been diagnosed with terminal cancer.
The revelation comes courtesy of an essay published on Saturday in the New Yorker titled, ‘A Battle With My Blood.’
Schlossberg, 35, the daughter of US’s former ambassador to Australia and Japan, Carol Kennedy, 67, and designer & artist, Edwin Schlossberg, 80, was diagnosed with a rare type of leukemia a little over a year ago. According to her essay, doctors have estimated she the heir to America’s royalty having about a year left to live.
JFK granddaughter dead at 35, loses battle to leukemia
Schlossberg, who lives in NYC and is married to physician, George Moran, who she expresses gratitude for supporting her during her healthcare crises, shared that she has acute myeloid leukemia (AML), with a rare mutation called Inversion 3.
AML is a rare cancer that affects your bone marrow and blood, according to The Cleveland Clinic.
The acute AML that Schlossberg was diagnosed with is a rare and aggressive form of cancer that is typically difficult to uncover. It is considered a very high-risk form of cancer with poor prognosis, and has a five-year survival rate of just 15-20 percent. Because of its genetic makeup, the diagnosis is often resistant to standard chemotherapy.
According to JFK granddaughter, who seemingly is now the next victim of a doomed Kennedy clan legacy (more on that below) shared that her illness was first discovered after the birth of her daughter in 2024, when doctors noticed her white blood cell count was low.
Since then, the 35-year-old has spent months on and off in the hospital, has undergone chemotherapy, several blood transplants (including one from her sister), has undergone several clinical trials, and has gone into remission and relapsed several times.
Describing her ‘shock diagnosis,’ Tatiana wrote, ‘I did not—could not—believe that they were talking about me. I had swum a mile in the pool the day before, nine months pregnant. I wasn’t sick. I didn’t feel sick. I was actually one of the healthiest people I knew.’
The granddaughter recalled of the shock when she first heard of her low blood cell count was because of leukemia and not her pregnancy.
‘During the latest clinical trial, my doctor told me that he could keep me alive for a year, maybe,’ she also shared.
“When you are dying, at least in my limited experience, you start remembering everything.” Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy, writes about receiving a terminal diagnosis. https://t.co/cqpafPbNOj
— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) November 22, 2025
Tatiana’s unease with her cousin, Robert F.Kennedy running healthcare system she now so desperately relies on
Tatiana has an older sister, Rose, and a younger brother, Jack. They are President Kennedy’s only grandchildren. He was assassinated just before her mother, Caroline Kennedy’s sixth birthday in November 1963. Ironically, her essay comes on the 62nd anniversary of JFK’s assassination on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas.
The granddaughter has worked as an environmental journalist and shared that she had plans to write a book about the oceans had she not gotten sick.
Causing her concern is the ascent of her cousin, Robert F.Kennedy as the Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Trump administration, whose rise during her treatment according to her essay has left her feeling uneasy about the healthcare system that she had become so reliant on and who her cousin has made steep funding cuts within his healthcare initiative.
‘Doctors and scientists at Columbia, including George (her husband), didn’t know if they would be able to continue their research, or even have jobs,’ she wrote. ‘I worried about funding for leukemia and bone-marrow research at Memorial Sloan Kettering. I worried about the trials that were my only shot at remission.’
Latest victim of a doomed Kennedy legacy?
Schlossberg lamented the impact that her diagnosis had on her storied family, which has famously suffered a series of tragedies and scandals over the years.
The family’s tragedies include the assassination of her grandfather JFK in 1963, and then his younger brother RFK in 1968.
The next year, JFK’s younger brother Ted infamously drove his car off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts, which killed passenger Mary Jo Kopechne – leading Kennedy to question at the time if ‘some awful curse did actually hang over all the Kennedys.’
There was more tragedy in July, 1999, when Tatiana’s uncle, and only son of JFK, John F. Kennedy Jr. died when the light aircraft he was piloting crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off Martha’s Vineyard, killing him and his new bride, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy.
Wrote Schlossberg, ‘For my whole life, I have tried to be good, to be a good student and a good sister and a good daughter, and to protect my mother and never make her upset or angry.
‘Now I have added a new tragedy to her life, to our family’s life, and there’s nothing I can do to stop it.’
