Tatiana Schlossberg, the granddaughter of President John F. Kennedy and daughter of Caroline Kennedy, died Tuesday. She was 35. “Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning. She will always be in our hearts,” her family wrote in a statement shared by the JFK Library Foundation.
Schlossberg’s death comes about a month after she revealed in an essay published in The New Yorker that she had acute myeloid leukemia, a diagnosis she said she received in May 2024 just hours after giving birth to her second child. “I did not — could not — believe that they were talking about me,” she wrote in her essay. “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.”
After her diagnosis, Schlossberg underwent numerous treatments, including chemotherapy, clinical trials, and two stem cell transplants. She credited her family – including her brother, Jack Schlossberg, who is currently running for Congress – with standing by her through her treatment. “They have held my hand unflinchingly while I have suffered, trying not to show their pain and sadness in order to protect me from it,” she wrote.
An accomplished environmental journalist, Schlossberg previously covered science and climate change at the New York Times. In 2020, she won the Society of Environmental Journalists’ Rachel Carson Environment Book Award for her debut book, Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don’t Know You Have.
Schlossberg is survived by her husband, George Moran, their two children, as well as her parents, Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg, and her siblings, Rose and Jack Schlossberg.
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