Tatiana Schlossberg, granddaughter of former President John F. Kennedy, revealed on Saturday that she had terminal cancer, with a doctor telling her she had less than a year to live.
In an article in The New YorkerThe 35-year-old wrote that she was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia last year with a rare mutation known as Inversion 3, a genetic abnormality. Found in less than 2% of AML Cases.
Doctors discovered the cancer shortly after Schlossberg gave birth to her daughter in May 2024.
“I couldn’t — I couldn’t — believe they were talking about me,” Schlossberg wrote. “I swam a mile in the pool the other day, and I’m nine months pregnant. I wasn’t sick. I didn’t feel sick. I was actually one of the healthiest people I knew.”
In the article, Schlossberg documents the grueling treatment process, which included several rounds of chemotherapy, two bone marrow transplants, and participation in two clinical trials. She was also diagnosed with a form of the Epstein-Barr virus in September, which “damaged my kidneys,” and she had to learn to walk again, Schlossberg said.
“During the last clinical trial, my doctor told me it could keep me alive for a year, maybe,” she wrote.
Schlossberg, an environmental journalist, is the second daughter of former US Ambassador Caroline Kennedy and designer Edwin Schlossberg. Tatiana Schlossberg and her husband, George Moran, have 3 year old son And a one-year-old daughter.
Schlossberg said her siblings — Rose, a film director, and Jack, who announced earlier this month that they are… Run for Congress – She was helping raise her children and “she held my hand without hesitation while I was suffering, and tried not to show their pain and sadness in order to protect me from her.”
Schlossberg described undergoing treatment as her cousin, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., was confirmed as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, after “running for president.” As a freelancerBut mostly it was an embarrassment to me and the rest of my immediate family.”
Doctors at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center, where she was treated, did not know whether they would be affected after the Trump administration stripped Columbia of federal funding, she said. “Suddenly, the health care system I depended on felt strained and shaken,” Schlossberg wrote. The university later agreed to a deal with the Trump administration to restore funding.
Schlossberg said she regrets adding to her family’s history of tragedy, which includes the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963 and the assassination of her great uncle, former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, in 1968.
“All my life, I have tried to be good, to be a good student, a good sister, a good daughter, and to protect my mother and never make her angry or angry,” she wrote. “I have now added a new tragedy to her life, to our family’s life, and there is nothing I can do to stop it.”
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