Tatiana Schlossberg’s Final-Year Prediction: What Doctors Told JFK’s Granddaughter

The 35-year-old woman wrote that shortly after giving birth to her second child in May 2024, she was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, and doctors now estimate she may have less than a year to survive.

Tatiana Schlossberg, granddaughter of the late U.S. President John F. Kennedy, revealed on Saturday that her cancer is considered terminal and her chances of survival are less than a year. The 35-year-old journalist shared her life story in The New Yorker, describing the moment her life changed forever.

Who is Tatiana Schlossberg?

Tatiana is the daughter of Caroline Kennedy and designer Edwin Schlossberg, and the granddaughter of John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. She has two siblings — Jack Schlossberg (who is running for Congress) and Rose Kennedy Schlossberg.

Tatiana is a climate-change and environmental journalist and the author of the book “Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don’t Know You Have.” She earned her undergraduate degree from Yale University and a master’s degree in U.S. history from Oxford University. She is married to Dr. George Moran, a physician at Columbia University. They have a 3-year-old son and a 1-year-old daughter.

Tatiana is a member of the famous Kennedy family, known for enduring multiple personal tragedies. Her grandfather, President John F. Kennedy, was assassinated in 1963. Her uncle, Bobby Kennedy, was killed during a political campaign in 1968. Her grandmother, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, died in 1994 due to non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Her uncle, John F. Kennedy Jr., died in a plane crash in 1999.

Tatiana also expressed concern about her cousin Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who became Secretary of Health and Human Services under “Trump 2.0.” She noted that he cut nearly half a billion dollars from mRNA vaccine research and reduced funding for the National Institutes of Health, affecting grants and clinical trials.

Referring to her own experience using misoprostol to stop postpartum bleeding, she expressed worry that millions of women may not receive proper medical care.

On Saturday, Maria Shriver, Tatiana’s cousin, asked people on social media to read Schlossberg’s story, saying it shows what “a beautiful writer, journalist, wife, mother, daughter, sister, and friend” has been going through for the past year and a half.

JFK’s granddaughter Tatiana Schlossberg shares terminal cancer diagnosis

Tatiana wrote that just ten minutes after giving birth to her second child, a daughter, in May 2024, doctors noticed something unusual in her white blood cell count. Soon after, she was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia — a type of blood cancer — with a rare mutation called inversion 3.

Speaking to the magazine, she described her disbelief, saying, “I had a son whom I loved more than anything, and I needed to take care of my newborn.” After several clinical trials and two transplants, her doctor told her that the maximum they could extend her life was one year.

Tatiana is currently receiving treatment at Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital in New York City. She wrote about the guilt she felt about adding yet another tragedy to her family’s history, saying: “My whole life, I’ve tried to be good… Now I have added a new tragedy to his life, to our family’s life, and there is nothing I can do to stop it.”