Tatiana Schlossberg, JFK’s Granddaughter, Reveals She Has Less Than A Year To Live

By Joe Lombardi From Daily Voice

Tatiana Schlossberg, the granddaughter of President John F. Kennedy and daughter of Caroline Kennedy, has revealed she is facing terminal cancer.

In a deeply personal essay published by The New Yorker on Saturday, Nov. 22, Schlossberg shared that she was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia shortly after the birth of her daughter on May 25, 2024. Doctors told her she has less than a year to live.

Schlossberg, 34, recounted the shock of her diagnosis, which came just hours after she and her husband, Dr. George Moran, welcomed their second child at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. 

She wrote, “A normal white-blood-cell count is around four to eleven thousand cells per microlitre. Mine was a hundred and thirty-one thousand cells per microlitre. It could just be something related to pregnancy and delivery, the doctor said, or it could be leukemia. ‘It’s not leukemia,’ I told George. ‘What are they talking about?’”

Despite hoping for a different outcome, doctors soon confirmed leukemia with a rare mutation called Inversion 3, which she notes is “mostly seen in older patients.” Schlossberg added, “I am not elderly — I had just turned thirty-four.”

Schlossberg, who was born and raised in New York City, is an acclaimed environmental journalist and author. 

She attended the Brearley and Trinity schools before graduating from Yale University and earning a master’s in American history from the University of Oxford. 

She worked as a science and climate reporter for The New York Times and has written for The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and Vanity Fair. Her 2019 book, "Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don’t Know You Have," won the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award in 2020.

Tatiana Schlossberg married Moran, whom she met at Yale, in September 2017 at her family’s Martha’s Vineyard estate. The couple welcomed their son, Edwin, in 2022 and their daughter this past May.

Tatiana's brother, 32-year-old Jack Schlossberg, announced earlier this month that he is running for Congress in the Democratic primary for the 12th District in New York City, which covers a large portion of Manhattan, including both the Upper West and East Sides from 14th Street to 110th Street.

Nov. 22 is the 62nd anniversary of the JFK assassination in Dallas.