JFK granddaughter Tatiana Schlossberg reveals terminal cancer diagnosis

Tatiana Schlossberg, the granddaughter of former President John F. Kennedy, announced Saturday that she has terminal cancer, exactly 62 years after he was assassinated.

The 35-year-old man said he was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia with a rare mutation called Inversion 3 shortly after the birth of his daughter in May 2024, and that doctors recently told him he likely had about a year to live.

“My first thought was that my children, whose faces live permanently inside my eyelids, would not remember me,” she wrote. New Yorker. “My son may have a few memories, but he’ll probably start confusing them with pictures he’s seen or stories he’s heard.”

“She was never able to truly care for my daughter; I couldn’t change her diaper, bathe her, or feed her because of the risk of post-transplant infection. I was gone for almost half of the first year of her life. I don’t know who she truly thought I was and whether she would feel or remember that I was her mother when I was gone.”

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He said the diagnosis was shocking because he felt completely healthy.

“I couldn’t believe what they were talking about me, I couldn’t believe it,” he wrote about the first conversation about leukemia. “I swam a mile in the pool the day before when I was nine months pregnant. I wasn’t sick. I didn’t feel sick. In fact, I was one of the healthiest people I know.”

He said cancer mostly occurs in older patients, and doctors often ask him if he spent a lot of time at Ground Zero in New York City, but he said he didn’t.

Schlossberg, the daughter of JFK’s eldest surviving daughter, Caroline Kennedy, described in heartbreaking detail the months she spent undergoing different treatments to beat cancer.

He went through a course of chemotherapy to “reduce the number of blast cells in my bone marrow,” then had a bone marrow transplant with the help of his sister.

After he entered recovery and went home, he said he had no immune system and had to get all his childhood vaccinations again.

Tatiana Schlossberg with her mother Caroline Kennedy, brother Jack Schlossberg, and Prince William at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. (Matt Stone/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)

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She later relapsed, and her doctor told her that mutated leukemia “likes to come back.”

At the beginning of the year, he participated in a clinical trial of CAR-T cell therapy, “a type of immunotherapy that has been proven effective against certain blood cancers.”

This was followed by another round of chemotherapy and a second blood transfusion from an unrelated donor.

“During the last clinical trial, my doctor said it could keep me alive for maybe a year,” he wrote.

He also wrote about his concerns after the nomination of his cousin, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., as secretary of Health and Human Services, which he called “shameful.”

“Suddenly, the healthcare system I relied on felt strained and shaky,” he wrote. “Doctors and scientists at Columbia [Presbyterian hospital]to contain [her husband] George didn’t know if they could continue their research or even get a job.”

Schlossberg was diagnosed shortly after the birth of her daughter last year. (Nathan Congleton/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images)

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He praised the rest of his family, who he said sat by his bedside while he endured treatments and cared for his children.

Of her husband, urologist George Moran, she wrote: “He is perfect and I feel so betrayed and so sad that I cannot continue to live the wonderful life I have with this kind, funny, handsome genius I have found.”

“Life is short, let it rip,” his brother Jack Schlossberg, who is running for congress in New York, wrote on Instagram on Saturday.

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Her mother’s cousin, Maria Shriver, shared her article on Instagram, writing: “If you can only read one thing today, please make time for this extraordinary piece by my cousin Caroline’s extraordinary daughter, Tatiana. Tatiana is a beautiful writer, journalist, wife, mother, daughter, sister, and friend.”

Tatiana added in her post: “All my life I have tried to be good, to be a good student, a good sister and a good daughter, to protect my mother, to never upset or make her angry. Now I have added a new tragedy to her life, to the life of our family, and there is nothing I can do to stop it.”

Tatiana Schlossberg and her brother, Jack Schlossberg, were watching their mother’s congressional confirmation hearing to become ambassador to Japan in 2013. (Corbis via ImageCatcher News Service/Getty Images)

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Her mother, Caroline Kennedy’s uncle, Robert F. Kennedy Sr., was assassinated five years after JFK, and Caroline’s only surviving sibling, JFK Jr., died in a plane crash in 1999, along with his two siblings who died in infancy.

Schlossberg’s grandmother, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, also died of cancer from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 1994 at the age of 64.

He finished his article by saying that he now lives to be with his children.

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“But being in the present is harder than it seems, so I let the memories come and go,” he admitted. “A lot of these are from my childhood, I feel like I’m watching myself and my kids grow up at the same time.”

He added, “Sometimes I fool myself into thinking I’ll remember this forever, when I die I’ll remember this. Of course I won’t. But since I don’t know what death is like and there’s no one to tell me what happens next, I’ll keep pretending. I’ll try to remember.”