Tatiana Schlossberg, the granddaughter of the late US President John F. Kennedy, revealed on Saturday that she has terminal cancer and may have less than a year to live. The 35-year-old journalist shared her story in The New Yorker, describing the moment her life changed forever.
Who is Tatiana Schlossberg?
Tatiana is the daughter of Caroline Kennedy and designer Edwin Schlossberg and granddaughter of John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. She has two siblings, Jack Schlossberg (running for Congress) and Rose Kennedy Schlossberg.
Tatiana is a climate change, environmental journalist and author of Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don’t Know You Have. She graduated from Yale University with a master’s in US history from the University of Oxford. Married to Dr George Moran, a physician at Columbia University. They have a 3-year-old son and a 1-year-old daughter.
Tatiana comes from the famous Kennedy family, known for enduring multiple personal tragedies. Her grandfather, President John F. Kennedy, was assassinated in 1963. Her uncle, Bobby Kennedy, was killed in 1968 during a political campaign. Her grandmother, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, died in 1994 from Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Her brother, John F. Kennedy Jr., died in a plane crash in 1999.
Tatiana also spoke about her concerns regarding her cousin Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who became Secretary of Health and Human Services under Trump’s 2.0. She highlighted that he reduced nearly half a billion dollars in research funding for mRNA vaccines and reduced funding at the National Institutes of Health, which affected grants and clinical trials.
She expressed concern that millions of women might not get proper medical care, citing her own experience with misoprostol to stop postpartum bleeding.
On Saturday, Kennedy’s cousin Maria Shriver took to social media to ask people to read Schlossberg’s story, saying it shows what “a beautiful writer, journalist, wife, mother, daughter, sister, and friend” has been facing over the past year and a half.
JFK’s granddaughter Tatiana Schlossberg shares terminal cancer diagnosis
Tatiana wrote that just ten minutes after giving birth to her second child, a baby girl, in May 2024, doctors noticed something unusual in her white blood cell count. Soon after, she was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia, a type of blood cancer, with a rare mutation called Inversion 3.
She described her disbelief, speaking to the magazine, saying, “I had a son whom I loved more than anything and a newborn I need to take care of.” After undergoing several clinical trials and two transplants, her doctor told her that he could keep her alive for about a year at most.
Tatiana is currently receiving care at Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital in New York City. She wrote about the guilt she felt for adding another tragedy to her family’s history, saying, “For my whole life, I have tried to be good… 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.”