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Tatiana Schlossberga descendant of JFK and the late president’s granddaughter. John F.Kennedydied a few weeks later at the age of 35 announces her terminal cancer diagnosis.
Kennedy Library Foundation Announce Schlossberg died Tuesday afternoon, according to a statement.
“Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning. She will always be in our hearts,” the statement read. The post was signed “George, Edwin and Josephine Moran, Ed, Caroline, Jack, Rose and Rory.”
Schlossberg is survived by her husband, George Moran, their three-year-old son and one-year-old daughter. She is also survived by her parents, Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg, her brother, Jack Schlossberg, and her sister, Rose Schlossberg, who was married to Rory McAuliffe.
Her cousin, Maria Shriver, also issued a statement on Tuesday in memory of “sweet, beloved Tatiana.”
“Tatiana is a great journalist who uses her words to educate others about the earth and how to save it. She has built a wonderful life with her extraordinary husband George and children Eddie and Josie. She fights like a warrior. She is heroic, strong and courageous,” Shriver write on X.
“Those of us who remain will make sure that Eddie and Josie know what a beautiful, courageous spirit their mother was and will always be. She inherited the legacy of her extraordinary mother, Carolyn,” Shriver later added.
Schlossberg revealed that she was diagnosed with a rare form of acute myeloid leukemia, a type of blood cancer, during one of her treatments. new yorker This article was published on November 22, the 62nd anniversary of her grandfather’s assassination.
In the article, she recounted her doubts about her diagnosis because the disease is mostly seen in older people.
“I didn’t – couldn’t – believe they were talking about me. I swam a mile in the pool the day before, when I was nine months pregnant. I wasn’t sick. I wasn’t feeling sick,” Schlossberg wrote.
Schlossberg was diagnosed with the disease shortly after giving birth to her daughter in May 2024. Her doctor noticed that her white blood cell count was elevated just hours after she gave birth to her daughter.
“Everyone thought it was pregnancy or childbirth related. A few hours later, my doctor decided it was leukemia,” she wrote.
She recalls worrying that her young children wouldn’t remember her after her death.
“In the latest clinical trial, my doctor told me he might be able to keep me alive for a year. My first thought was that my children wouldn’t remember me and that their faces would forever live on the inside of my eyelids,” Schlossberg wrote.
“My son may have some memories, but he may start confusing them with pictures he sees or stories he hears. I never really cared for my daughter – I couldn’t change her diaper, bathe her or feed her, all because of the risk of post-transplant infection,” she added.
In her article, Schlossberg also criticized her cousin, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.…, who took office in February after being nominated by President Donald Trump.
“I watched from my hospital bed as Bobby was confirmed for this position in the face of logic and common sense, even though he had never worked in medicine, public health or government,” she wrote.
she condemned his Cut research fundingspecifically “mRNA vaccines, a technology that could be used to fight certain cancers.”
Other members of the family also criticized HHS leaders, including caroline kennedy and Jack Schlossberg announced Planned to run for Congress as a Democrat in New York last month.
Shriver is a journalist and former first lady of California. Praising her cousin new yorker prose.
“If you can read only one thing today, please take the time to read this extraordinary piece by my cousin Caroline’s extraordinary daughter Tatiana,” Shriver wrote last month. “Tatiana was a beautiful writer, journalist, wife, mother, daughter, sister and friend.”
Schlossberg was born on May 5, 1990 in New York City. she MotherThe daughter of the 35th President and First Lady Jackie Kennedy, she served as U.S. Ambassador to Japan and Australia. Her father is a designer and artist.
Schlossberg earned a bachelor’s degree in history from Yale University and then went to Oxford University to earn a master’s degree in American history.
The purpose of her internship is new york times In 2014, she was hired as a staff writer for the Outlets Metro Department and later as a staff writer for the Science Department. henry fountainlong-time climate reporter and editor this new york times,Tell washington post Schlossberg was a “very happy” person and “she just worked on the story.”
Schlossberg continues to work as a freelance environmental journalist focusing on the impacts of climate change. She has published many novels washington postincluding a investigation Studying the impact of climate change on cranberry farmers.
In 2019, Schlossberg also published Inconspicuous consumption: the environmental impact you don’t know.
This work earned her Rachel Carson Environmental Book Award. The award’s judges wrote that Schlossberg’s readers “will find comfort, humor, and a way to feel the possibility of positive change rather than becoming exhausted by the accumulation of bad news.”
on her new yorker Schlossberg said she has told her son about her love of writing.
“My son knows that I am a writer and that I write about our planet. I have reminded him of this a lot since I got sick so that he will know that I am more than just a patient,” she wrote.
Schlossberg also revealed that if she hadn’t been ill, she would have written a “book about oceans—their devastation, but also the possibilities they offer.”
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul paid tribute to Schlossberg in a statement Tuesday.
“My heart goes out to the Kennedy family. I will never forget what it was like for Caroline Kennedy to be in the White House as a child before she lost her father. Now that she has lost her own daughter to this terrible disease, it is indescribable. My prayers are with all who knew and loved her,” she write on X.