More Kennedy tragedy strikes as Tatiana Schlossberg, granddaughter of JFK, discloses terminal leukemia diagnosis
Tatiana Schlossberg, the granddaughter of JFK, has less than a year to live after being diagnosed with cancer.
The 35-year-old mother-of-two announced the shocking news in a personal essay published in the New Yorker on Saturday, revealing she has acute myeloid leukemia with a 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 and Edwin Schlossberg heartbreakingly writes.
Tatiana Schlossberg has less than a year to live after being diagnosed with terminal leukemia. AP
Schlossberg described how doctors discovered the cancer just hours after she gave birth to her second child in May 2024.
“My doctor noticed that my blood count looked strange. A normal white-blood-cell count is around four to eleven thousand cells per microliter,” she writes. “Mine was a hundred and thirty-one thousand cells per microliter.”
The article was accompanied by searing photos of Schlossberg showing her hair chopped short and greying.
Doctors were curious if the illness was connected to the Sept. 11th, 2001 terror attacks.
“Every doctor I saw asked me if I had spent a lot of time at Ground Zero, given how common blood cancers are among first responders. I was in New York on 9/11, in the sixth grade, but I didn’t visit the site until years later.
“I am not elderly—I had just turned thirty-four,” she wrote.
“Maybe my brain is replaying my life now because I have a terminal diagnosis, and all these memories will be lost,” Schlossberg — pictured with husband, George Moran (center) and brother, Jack Schlossberg — wrote. AP
Tatiana Schlossberg’s mother is Caroline Kennedy (left). Nathan Congleton/NBC via Getty Images
Schlossberg described the shock of getting the bad news.
“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 article by the political scion came Nov. 22 – the 62nd anniversary of her grandfather’s 1963 assassination.
Her brother, Jack Schlossberg, is running for Congress in the 12th Congressional District being vacated by Manhattan Rep. Jerold Nadler (D-NY).
This is a developing story.
