Tatiana Schlossberg, granddaughter of JFK, announces terminal cancer diagnosis | The Kennedys

Tatiana Schlossberg, journalist and granddaughter of John F. Kennedy, announced Saturday that she had been diagnosed with terminal cancer and that her doctor had informed her that she had less than a year to live.

The environmentalist writer also addressed his cousin, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., criticizing the impact of his own policies as secretary of health and human services on his experience with the disease.

In an article he wrote for New Yorker In the article published on Saturday, it was revealed that the 35-year-old daughter of Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg had acute myeloid leukemia.

Schlossberg learned of her diagnosis shortly after giving birth to her second child with husband George Moran in May 2024 and has been receiving treatment ever since.

“I couldn’t believe what they were talking about me, I couldn’t believe it,” Schlossberg wrote. “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.”

While describing his ongoing treatments later in the article, Schlossberg criticized Kennedy’s policies as health secretary. He expressed strong disapproval of anti-vaccine stances and decisions to cut funding for medical research, highlighting the harm such actions cause patients like himself.

“As I spent more and more of my life under the watchful eye of doctors, nurses, and researchers trying to improve the lives of others, I watched Bobby cut nearly half a billion dollars for research into mRNA vaccines, technology that could be used against certain cancers,” he wrote.

He added that Kennedy “withheld billions of dollars in funding from the National Institutes of Health, the world’s largest sponsor of medical research, and threatened to oust the panel of medical experts tasked with recommending preventive cancer screenings.”

Schlossberg added that doctors at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center, where he was treated, were uncertain about their future after the Trump administration withdrew federal funding from the university.

“Suddenly, the healthcare system I relied on felt strained and shaky,” Schlossberg wrote. The university later reached an agreement with the Trump administration to restore funding.

Schlossberg was previously a climate correspondent for the New York Times and has written for the Atlantic, Washington Post and Vanity Fair. He and Moran share a three-year-old son and a one-year-old daughter.

He concluded his essay by reflecting on his focus for the time he had left, writing that he hoped to “fill my brain with memories” of his children: “I try to live now and be with them. But being in the now is harder than it seems, so I let the memories come and go… I’ll keep trying to remember.”