Tatiana Schlossberg, the granddaughter of President John F. Kennedy, revealed she is facing terminal cancer after a devastating diagnosis earlier this year.
In a personal essay published in The New Yorker on Saturday, November 22, the 35-year-old journalist and author shared that she has acute myeloid leukemia (AML), discovered shortly after the birth of her second child in May 2024.
Schlossberg wrote that her doctor first detected something was wrong when reviewing her bloodwork a few hours after delivery. “A normal white-blood-cell count is around four to eleven thousand cells per microliter. Mine was a hundred and thirty-one thousand cells per microliter,” she explained. What initially seemed like a possible pregnancy-related fluctuation quickly escalated into a life-altering diagnosis. “After a few hours, my doctors thought it was leukemia,” she shared. Further testing revealed she carries “a rare mutation called Inversion 3.”
Even after hearing that she would require aggressive treatment, which included months of chemotherapy and a bone-marrow transplant — one she received from her sister Rose, Schlossberg struggled to understand how this could be happening to her and her family. “I did not — could not — believe that they were talking about me,” she recalled. “I had swum a mile in the pool the day before, nine months pregnant. I wasn’t sick. I didn’t feel sick.”She went on, ironically noting, “I once swam three miles across the Hudson River — eerily, to raise money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.”
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Following five weeks at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital, she was transferred to Memorial Sloan Kettering for a bone-marrow transplant, continuing chemotherapy at home while caring for her newborn daughter and 3-year-old son.
In January, she enrolled in a clinical trial for CAR-T cell therapy, but despite the advanced treatment, doctors later told Schlossberg she likely has a year left to live. “My first thought was that my kids, whose faces live permanently on the inside of my eyelids, wouldn’t remember me,” she wrote.
Throughout the diagnosis, Schlossberg said her husband, George Moran, has been her anchor. “George did everything for me that he possibly could. He talked to all the doctors and insurance people that I didn’t want to talk to; he slept on the floor of the hospital,” she wrote. She also credited her family — including mother Caroline Kennedy — for stepping in to help raise her children and sit with her during grueling treatments. “They have held my hand unflinchingly while I have suffered,” she shared.
As she faces the realities of terminal illness, Schlossberg says she’s trying to stay grounded in the moments she has left. “Mostly, I try to live and be with them now,” she wrote. “But being in the present is harder than it sounds, so I let the memories come and go.”
For years, the string of tragedies surrounding the Kennedy family has often been a topic of discussion. From the assassinations of JFK and Robert F. Kennedy to the plane crashes that killed John F. Kennedy Jr. in 1999, Joe Kennedy Jr. in 1944 and his sister Kathleen Kennedy in 194,, the family is unfortunately no stranger to heartbreak.
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