"Tatiana Schlossberg, an environmental journalist, author, and granddaughter of President John F. Kennedy, has died at 35 after a highly publicized battle with an aggressive form of blood cancer. Her family announced her death on Tuesday through the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, saying in a brief statement, "Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning. She will always be in our hearts." The message was signed by her husband, George Moran, their children, and her immediate and extended family."
"Schlossberg's death comes just weeks after she publicly revealed in The New Yorker that she had been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, a fast-moving blood cancer, with a rare mutation typically seen in older patients. She wrote that she had been given less than a year to live with the mutation, known as Inversion 3, making the disease especially difficult to treat."
"Schlossberg wrote that doctors first detected abnormalities in her blood counts shortly after the birth of her second child in May 2024, when a physician noticed her extremely elevated white blood cell levels. What initially could have been dismissed as a pregnancy-related complication instead led to a cascade of tests that confirmed leukemia at a moment when she was recovering from childbirth and caring for a toddler at home."
"Her treatment included extended hospitalizations, intensive chemotherapy, and at least one stem cell or bone marrow transplant, including a donation from her sister, Rose Schlossberg. In her essay, Schlossberg wrote candidly of the dissonance of facing a terminal diagnosis despite having considered herself exceptionally healthy, noting her regular runs in Central Park and even a past swim across the Hudson River to raise money for blood cancer research."
Tatiana Schlossberg died at 35 after acute myeloid leukemia with the rare Inversion 3 mutation. Doctors detected abnormal blood counts shortly after the birth of her second child in May 2024 when a physician noted extremely elevated white blood cells, triggering tests that confirmed leukemia. Treatment included extended hospitalizations, intensive chemotherapy and at least one stem-cell or bone marrow transplant, with a donation from her sister Rose Schlossberg. She had considered herself exceptionally healthy, regularly running in Central Park and once swimming the Hudson to raise funds for blood cancer research. Her family announced her death; the message was signed by her husband, George Moran, their children, and extended family.
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