The Kennedy family faces yet another devastating blow, as 35-year-old Tatiana Schlossberg, granddaughter of John F. Kennedy, has revealed she is in the final stage of acute myeloid leukemia. The young mother of two announced through a personal essay in The New Yorker that doctors have given her less than a year to live, confirming that the “curse” that has haunted the historic family for decades continues in the cruelest way possible.
In her heartbreaking piece, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg describes how the diagnosis came just hours after the birth of her second child in May 2024, leaving her and her family facing a merciless battle.
The fight against leukemia and a rare genetic mutation
Tatiana Schlossberg reveals she suffers from acute myeloid leukemia with a particularly rare mutation, Inversion 3, typically found in older patients. Since then, she has undergone exhausting treatments, bone marrow transplantation, chemotherapy, and blood transfusions.
In January, she participated in a CAR-T-cell immunotherapy clinical trial, but doctors made it clear she has less than 12 months to live.
“Maybe my brain is replaying my whole life now because I have a terminal diagnosis, and all these memories will be lost,” she writes in her article.
“When you are dying, at least in my limited experience, you start remembering everything.” Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy, writes about receiving a terminal diagnosis. https://t.co/cqpafPbNOj
— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) November 22, 2025
The heartbreaking confession about her children
With deep emotion, the 35-year-old mother speaks about her fear that her children won’t remember her face.
“My first thought was that my children, whose faces are forever etched in my eyes, won’t remember me,” she notes. “My son might have a few memories, but he’ll probably start confusing them with photographs or stories. I never really got to care for my daughter, I couldn’t change her diapers, bathe her, or feed her.”
Her family supports her daily in caring for her two young children, while she speaks about the deep pain of adding another tragedy to her mother Caroline Kennedy’s life.
“Now I have added a new tragedy to her life, to our family’s life, and I can’t do anything to stop it,” she writes.
Schlossberg is the second of Caroline Kennedy’s three children. She studied at Yale and Oxford, worked for the New York Times, and published her first book in 2019. Since 2017, she has been married to urologist George Moran, with whom she has two children: Edwin, 3 years old, and an 18-month-old daughter.
Her article was published on November 22, a date that coincides with the 62nd anniversary of her grandfather John F. Kennedy’s assassination in 1963.
