JFK Granddaughter Tatiana Schlossberg Reveals Terminal Leukemia

Tatiana Schlossberg, the 35-year-old granddaughter of President John F. Kennedy, revealed in an essay published Saturday in The New Yorker that she has been diagnosed with terminal acute myeloid leukemia, a rare and aggressive blood cancer, and that her doctors have given her less than a year to live.

Schlossberg, an environmental journalist and daughter of Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg, learned of her condition in May 2024, just hours after giving birth to her second child, a daughter, with her husband, George Moran. Routine blood tests showed her white blood cell count at 131,000 per microliter, far exceeding the normal range of 4,000 to 11,000. Further examination confirmed acute myeloid leukemia with a rare genetic mutation known as Inversion 3, which typically affects older patients and resists standard treatments. "It could just be something related to pregnancy and delivery, or it could be leukemia," her doctor told her at the time, according to the essay. Schlossberg, who shares a 3-year-old son, Edwin Jr., with Moran, described her initial disbelief: "I did not could not believe that they were talking about me. I had swum a mile in the pool the day before,...