Caroline Kennedy's Daughter Tatiana Schlossberg Shares Terminal Cancer Diagnosis
Tatiana Schlossberg is bravely fighting a difficult health battle.
The 35-year-old daughter of Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg shared that she has been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, a rare blood cancer, with doctors giving her a terminal prognosis.
In an essay for The New Yorker published Nov. 22, Schlossberg explained that she learned of her disease hours after giving birth to her second baby with husband George Moran in May 2024, when her doctor discovered that her white blood cell count was abnormally high.
“It could just be something related to pregnancy and delivery, the doctor said, or it could be leukemia,” she recalled. “‘It’s not leukemia,’ I told George. ‘What are they talking about?’”
After receiving her diagnosis, the environmental journalist who also shares 3-year-old Edwin Jr. with Moran was told she would need months of chemotherapy as well as a bone-marrow transplant, admitting she had difficulty absorbing the sharp turn of events.
“I did not could not believe that they were talking about me,” she recalled. “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.”
“I had a son whom I loved more than anything and a newborn I needed to take care of,” Schlossberg continued. “This could not possibly be my life.”
In January, Schlossberg embarked on a clinical trial of CAR-T-cell therapy, an immunotherapy meant to fight certain blood cancers. After several rounds of the trial, her doctor informed her that she likely has one year to live.
Amid her cancer journey, Schlossberg noted that her husband “did everything for me that he possibly could,” adding that her family, including her siblings Jack Schlossberg and Rose Schlossberg, also stepped up for her.
