In a deeply moving and candid essay published in The New Yorker on Saturday, **Tatiana Schlossberg**, the daughter of U.S. Ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy and granddaughter of President John F. Kennedy, revealed she has been diagnosed with **terminal acute myeloid leukemia (AML)**.
The 35-year-old journalist and environmental reporter wrote about the devastating diagnosis, which was discovered last year shortly after she gave birth to her second child. Schlossberg is now focusing on her family and creating lasting memories.
💔 The Unexpected Diagnosis
Schlossberg, who has a 3-year-old son and a 1-year-old daughter, said the cancer was found almost immediately after her daughter’s birth. Despite feeling perfectly healthy, she was diagnosed with AML, a rare blood cancer, specifically citing a **“rare mutation called Inversion 3.”**
Her intense treatment path included months of chemotherapy, a bone-marrow transplant at Memorial Sloan Kettering, and participation in a clinical trial for **CAR-T-cell therapy**. Despite these efforts, doctors recently delivered the terminal prognosis, giving her roughly a year to live.
“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.”
The Unflinching Support of the Kennedy Family
The essay highlighted the unwavering support she has received from her immediate family—a testament to the enduring closeness of the Kennedy line.
- **Husband George Moran** handled all medical and insurance details, sleeping on the hospital floor for weeks.
- **Parents and Siblings** have been “raising my children and sitting in my various hospital rooms almost every day for the last year and a half.”
Schlossberg expressed profound gratitude for their strength, noting their effort in trying “not to show their pain and sadness in order to protect me from it.”
A Legacy of Memory
Schlossberg’s essay concluded with a poignant reflection on her children and the human desire for memory and legacy. She wrote about the importance of embracing the present and cherishing every moment.
“Sometimes I trick myself into thinking I’ll remember this forever, I’ll remember this when I’m dead. Obviously, I won’t. But since I don’t know what death is like and there’s no one to tell me what comes after it, I’ll keep pretending. I will keep trying to remember.”
