Tatiana Schlossberg, 35, reveals a terminal leukemia diagnosis and details her arduous treatment while reflecting on family, care, and uncertainty.
Tatiana Schlossberg, granddaughter of former U.S. President John F. Kennedy, has revealed she is living with a terminal form of leukemia, sharing her diagnosis and treatment journey in a deeply personal essay published in The New Yorker.
Schlossberg, 35, wrote that she was diagnosed last year with Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML), a fast-progressing blood cancer. Tests showed she carries a rare mutation known as Inversion 3, which appears in fewer than 2% of AML cases and complicates treatment options. Doctors detected the illness shortly after she gave birth to her daughter in May 2024.
Recalling the shock of the diagnosis, Schlossberg said she felt healthy and active at the time. “I did not — could not — believe that they were talking about me,” she wrote, describing how she had swum a mile the previous day while nine months pregnant.
Over the past year, Schlossberg has undergone intensive medical procedures, including multiple rounds of chemotherapy, two bone-marrow transplants and participation in two clinical trials. She also contracted a form of Epstein-Barr virus in September 2025, which severely affected her kidneys and required extensive rehabilitation. “I had to learn to walk again,” she wrote.
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Her doctor eventually told her that current treatment strategies might extend her life by about a year. Schlossberg said she is confronting that prognosis with realism but also with gratitude for her family’s support.
An environmental journalist and author, Schlossberg is the second daughter of Caroline Kennedy, the U.S. ambassador to Australia, and designer Edwin Schlossberg. She and her husband, George Moran, are parents to a three-year-old son and a one-year-old daughter.
She said her siblings, filmmaker Rose Schlossberg and her brother Jack — who recently announced a run for Congress — have stepped in to help care for her young children. “They have held my hand unflinchingly while I have suffered,” she wrote, noting that they try to shield her from their own sadness.
The essay also references turbulent moments within the wider Kennedy family. Schlossberg described undergoing treatment while her cousin, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., was confirmed as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services after an Independent Presidential Campaign that she said caused embarrassment within her immediate family.
Schlossberg added that her medical team briefly feared disruptions after the Trump administration revoked then later restored federal funding to Columbia University, where she is receiving care. The episode, she said, underscored how fragile the healthcare system can feel for patients.
Reflecting on her diagnosis, Schlossberg expressed sorrow that her illness adds to a family marked by historic tragedies. Yet her writing also conveys determination to focus on her children, her loved ones and the time she has.
