Tatiana Schlossberg has died at 35 shortly after the diagnosis of rare cancer.
According to The Guardian, the granddaughter of former US President John F. Kennedy passed away on Tuesday, December 20. Schlossberg in November revealed that she has been diagnosed with the rare form of leukaemia.
The John F Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum announced her death in a post on social media that read, “Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning. She will always be in our hearts.”
The statement was signed by George, Edwin and Josephine Moran, Ed, Carolina, Jack, Rose and Rory.
The late author and journalist, in her November essay in The New Yorker, unveiled that she was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia with a rare mutation, a cancer of the blood and bone marrow which is mostly common above the age of 60.
The doctors first noticed that something was unusual after finding a very high white blood cell count, a symptom of the disease, after she gave birth to her second child in May 2024.
Schlossberg wrote in the essay, titled A Battle With My Blood, “I did not – could not – believe that they were talking about me. I had swum a mile in the pool the day before, nine months pregnant. I wasn’t sick.”
“I didn’t feel sick. I was actually one of the healthiest people I knew. During the latest clinical trial, my doctor told me that he could keep me alive for a year, maybe. My first thought was that my kids, whose faces live permanently on the inside of my eyelids, wouldn't remember me," she added.
In the same essay the environmental writer also criticised her cousin and secretary of health Robert F. Kennedy Jr for his views on vaccine and cancer research.
Schlossberg was an accomplished journalist whose work appeared in top publications including The Atlantic and Vanity Fair.
Her award-winning book, Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don't Know You Have, was published in 2019. She is survived by her husband, George Moran, and their two children.
