Tatiana Schlossberg dead at 35, dies from blood cancer after 18 month battle to beat leukemia, where she endured chemotherapy and other treatments. Tragic death of JFK’s granddaughter comes just six weeks after essay with the New Yorker where the married mom of two publicly revealed her terminal diagnoses and that she had at the most another year to live.
How fragile life is…even for American royalty. Tatiana Schlossberg, the youngest granddaughter of President John F. Kennedy, died on Tuesday from cancer at age 35, the JFK Library Foundation announced. The death comes just six weeks after publicly revealing she had terminal cancer.
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‘Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning,’ the foundation posted on its Instagram page, signed by ‘George, Edwin and Josephine Moran, Ed, Carolina, Jack, Rose and Rory.’
‘She will always be in our hearts.’
In a personal essay published in the New Yorker last month, the mother of two revealed that she had less than a year to live after being diagnosed with myeloid leukemia with rare mutation.
‘Maybe my brain is replaying my life now because I have a terminal diagnosis, and all these memories will be lost,’ the daughter of Caroline Kennedy, 67, and Edwin Schlossberg, 80, wrote.
Schlossberg described how doctors discovered the cancer just hours after she gave birth to her second child during routine blood work in May 2024.
Writing in the New Yorker, the environmental journalist said she had no symptoms and was ‘one of the healthiest people I knew’ when the shock diagnosis came.
Schlossberg in her essay said that she ‘could not believe’ the doctors were talking about her when they said she would need chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant.
‘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,’ she wrote.
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She had spent the past 18 months in treatment, receiving a bone-marrow transplant, chemotherapy and blood transfusions. The rare mutation with which Schlossberg is afflicted, Inversion 3, is usually seen in older patients.
Caroline was five years old when her father was assassinated, and she lost her only living sibling, John F. Kennedy Jr., in a plane crash years later.
‘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,’ Schlossberg wrote.
‘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.’
The Kennedy family has also endured assassinations, drug overdoses, tragic accidents and scandal.
Schlossberg, who graduated from Yale and has a Master’s degree from Oxford, previously worked as a journalist at The New York Times and published her first book in 2019.
She has been married to urologist George Moran, whom she met as an undergrad at Yale, since 2017.
They have two children: son, Edwin, 3, and a daughter, 19 months.
