Tatiana Schlossberg, granddaughter of JFK, dies at 35 after revealing cancer diagnosis

Tatiana Schlossberg, the granddaughter of the late President John F. Kennedy, died shortly after announcing that she had a terminal cancer diagnosisthe JFK Library Foundation said Tuesday.

“Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning. She will always be in our hearts,” reads a message from her family on the institution’s Instagram account, accompanied by an image of the Schlossberg.

Schlossberg, 35, who had a career as an environmental journalist, wrote in an essay published last month by The New Yorker that she was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia in May 2024, shortly after the birth of her second child. She underwent grueling treatment, including chemotherapy and bone marrow transplants, but the cancer returned and she was ultimately given a prognosis of one year to live, she wrote.

Schlossberg was the second of three children of Caroline Kennedy Sclossberg and Edwin Schlossberg.

She published the essay announcing her diagnosis in November, 62 years to the day after President Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas in 1963. She wrote that she struggled to deal with the impact of her diagnosis on her family.

“All my life I have tried to be good, to be a good student, a good sister and a good daughter, and to protect my mother and never upset or make her angry. Now I have added a new tragedy to her life, to our family’s life and there is nothing I can do to stop it,” she wrote.

Schlossberg married George Moran in September 2017. The couple met while students at Yale University, The New York Times reported, and married in a ceremony at her family’s home on Martha’s Vineyard. They had two children, a son born in 2022 and a daughter born in May 2024.

Schlossberg wrote that she focused on spending time with her family after her diagnosis, especially with her young children.

“Mostly I try to live and be with them now,” she wrote. “But being in the present is harder than it seems, so I let the memories come and go. So many of them are from my childhood that I feel like I’m seeing myself and my kids growing up at the same time. Sometimes I fool myself into thinking that I’ll remember them forever, I’ll remember them when I’m dead. Obviously I won’t. But since I don’t know what death feels like and there’s no one to tell me what comes next, I’ll keep pretending, I’ll keep trying to remember.”

She is survived by her husband and children, her parents, her older sister Rose and her younger brother Jack.

This is a developing story and will be updated.