Schlossberg, 35, revealed in November diagnosis of mutation of cancer of blood and bone marrow<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tatiana Schlossberg, granddaughter of the 35th US president, John F Kennedy<\/a>, died on Tuesday after revealing in November she had been diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia. She was 35.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Her passing was announced in a social media post by the John F Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. \u201cOur beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning. She will always be in our hearts,\u201d the post said<\/a>. It was signed \u201cGeorge, Edwin and Josephine Moran, Ed, Carolina, Jack, Rose and Rory\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In a New Yorker essay published in November, Schlossberg said she had been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia with a rare mutation, a cancer of the blood and bone marrow, and had less than a year to live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Schlossberg, who graduated from Yale and had a master\u2019s degree from Oxford, was previously a climate reporter for the New York Times, and had contributed to the Atlantic, the Washington Post and Vanity Fair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The daughter of Caroline Kennedy, 67, and Edwin Schlossberg, 80, said she\u2019d learned of her diagnosis<\/a> shortly after giving birth to her second child with husband George Moran in May 2024 and had been undergoing treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI did not \u2013 could not \u2013 believe that they were talking about me,\u201d Schlossberg wrote in the essay, titled A Battle With My Blood. \u201cI had swum a mile in the pool the day before, nine months pregnant. I wasn\u2019t sick. I didn\u2019t feel sick. I was actually one of the healthiest people I knew.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the essay, the environmental writer addressed her cousin, Robert F Kennedy Jr, criticizing the influence his policies as secretary of health and human services had had on her experience with the illness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Schlossberg wrote that she strongly disapproved of his anti-vaccine positions and his decisions to cut funding for medical research, emphasizing the harm such actions cause to patients like herself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAs I spent more and more of my life under the care of doctors, nurses, and researchers striving to improve the lives of others, I watched as Bobby cut nearly a half billion<\/a> dollars for research into mRNA vaccines, technology that could be used against certain cancers,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She said that Kennedy \u201cslashed billions in funding from the National Institutes of Health, the world\u2019s largest sponsor of medical research; and threatened to oust the panel of medical experts charged with recommending preventive cancer screenings\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Schlossberg added that doctors at NewYork-Presbyterian\/Columbia University Irving medical center, where she was receiving care, were uncertain about their future after funding cuts initiated by the Trump administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cSuddenly, the health-care system on which I relied felt strained, shaky,\u201d Schlossberg wrote. The university later reached an agreement with the Trump administration that reinstated the funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She concluded her essay reflecting on her focus in the time she had left, writing that she hoped to \u201cfill my brain with memories\u201d of her children: \u201cI try to live and be with them now. But being in the present is harder than it sounds, so I let the memories come and go \u2026 I will keep trying to remember.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Schlossberg leaves behind a three-year-old son and a one-year-old daughter she shared with her husband.<\/p>\n\n\n\n