Tatiana Schlossberg, Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg’s daughter, is opening up about her health.
In a Nov. 22 essay for The New Yorker, Schlossberg revealed she was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia. She described her diagnosis as “terminal” in the essay, which she titled, “A Battle with My Blood.”
Schlossberg, 35, said she found out about her diagnosis after she gave birth to her second child in May 2024. She explained that doctors realized something was wrong once they noticed that her white blood cell count looked “strange.”
“A normal white-blood-cell count is around four to eleven thousand cells per microlitre. Mine was a hundred and thirty-one thousand cells per microlitre,” she wrote in the essay. “It could just be something related to pregnancy and delivery, the doctor said, or it could be leukemia.”
A few hours later, Schlossberg said her doctors diagnosed her with acute myeloid leukemia, which, according to Cleveland Clinic, is an aggressive and rare cancer that affects the bone marrow and blood and is mostly seen in people 60 and older.
Schlossberg said she ended up getting a stem cell transplant from her sister which put her in remission. But she relapsed.
“My transplant doctor said that leukemia with my mutation ‘liked to come back,'” she recalled.
She wrote that she went into remission, relapsed and joined several clinical trials. After a hospitalization stay, she said she “had to learn how to walk again” and couldn’t pick up her kids.
“During the latest clinical trial, my doctor told me that he could keep me alive for a year, maybe,” she wrote.
Prince William, Jack Schlossberg, Tatiana Schlossberg and Caroline Kennedy in 2022.Pool / WireImage
Schlossberg has two siblings: older sister Rose Schlossberg, 37, and younger brother Jack Schlossberg, 32, who just announced he’s running for Congress in 2026. Rose, Tatiana and Jack Schlossberg are the only grandchildren of former President John F. Kennedy.
“For my whole life, I have tried to be good, to be a good student and a good sister and a good daughter, and to protect my mother and never make her upset or angry,” Tatiana Schlossberg wrote in her essay. “Now I have added a new tragedy to her life, to our family’s life, and there’s nothing I can do to stop it.”
Schlossberg married George Moran in 2017, and they share two children.
As she continues to undergo treatments, Schlossberg says she tries her best to be there for her kids and make as many memories with them as possible.
“Mostly, I try to live and be with them now,” she said. “But being in the present is harder than it sounds, so I let the memories come and go. So many of them are from my childhood that I feel as if I’m watching myself and my kids grow up at the same time.”
“Sometimes I trick myself into thinking I’ll remember this forever, I’ll remember this when I’m dead. Obviously, I won’t,” she added. “But since I don’t know what death is like and there’s no one to tell me what comes after it, I’ll keep pretending. I will keep trying to remember.”