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Tatiana Schlossberg Shares Her Terminal Cancer Diagnosis
Tatiana Schlossberg, the 35-year-old first daughter of Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg, announced that she has a terminal cancer.
In an essay for The New Yorker, which was published on Nov. 22, she explained that her diagnosis of acute myeloid leukemia was made shortly after the birth of her second child in May 2024.
“Only a few hours later, my doctor came back to me to report that my blood count looked very unusual,” she recalled. “The normal range for white blood cells is between four and eleven thousand cells per microliter. However, mine was one hundred and thirty-one thousand cells per microliter.”
Tatiana Schlossberg Says Standard Treatments Can’t Cure Her Leukemia
“It may be something very simple just related to pregnancy and delivery,” her doctor initially told Tatiana Schlossberg, “but it might also be leukemia.”
In her New Yorker essay, the 35-year-old wrote that the diagnosis her tests led to was acute myeloid leukemia with “a rare mutation called Inversion 3.”
Noting the news was very bad, she wrote: “I could not be cured by a standard course.” She was informed that she would have to undergo chemotherapy for several months before a bone marrow transplant.
“I did not — could not — fathom that they were referring to me,” Schlossberg wrote further. “I had actually swum a mile in the pool the day before, while I was nine months pregnant. I wasn’t sick. I didn’t even think I was sick. In fact, I was probably one of the healthiest people I knew.”
Tatiana Schlossberg Narrates Treatment Journey Following Leukemia Diagnosis
“I had a son that I loved more than the world and a newborn that I had to take care of,” Tatiana Schlossberg expressed, while she was recalling the incident that changed her life. She and her husband, George Moran—whom she married in 2017—have a son aged 3 and a daughter aged 1.
After the birth of her daughter, Schlossberg was five weeks inpatient at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital. She was moved to Memorial Sloan Kettering for her bone-marrow transplant and carried on her chemotherapy treatments at home.
Tatiana Schlossberg Claims She Has Only One Year Left and Appreciates Her Husband’s Help
In January, Tatiana Schlossberg decided to take part in a clinical trial of CAR-T cell therapy, which is a type of immunotherapy that can be used to treat certain kinds of blood cancers. However, after the innovative treatment, it was her doctor who broke the news to her that she only has about a year to live.
In her personal story, Schlossberg honored her husband, George Moran, for his constant and devoted support. “George did absolutely everything for me that he could,” she recalled. “He didn’t merely meet doctors and attend to the questions of the people from insurance that I refused to talk to; he was at the hospital all night long and slept on the floor.”
Tatiana Schlossberg Writes About the Love and Care of Her Family During Her Illness
“My mom and dad and my brother and my sister, as well, have been taking care of my kids and they have been with me during my different visits to the hospital almost every day for the last year and a half,” wrote Schlossberg. “They have been with me and supported me when I was I suffering and they didn’t even try to hide their pain and tears but still they were gentle and they tried to comfort me. I have experienced this as a very precious gift, although I cannot help but feel their pain every day.”
Tatiana Schlossberg on Grief, Guilt and Staying Present for Her Kids
“Throughout my life I have been trying to be good; to be a good student, a good sister, a good daughter and to protect my mother and never make her upset or angry,” Tatiana Schlossberg wrote, while referring to mother Caroline Kennedy and siblings Rose and Jack.
“Now I have done something new that adds tragedy to her life, to our family’s life, and I can’t do anything to stop it,” the mother of two, went on.
She added, “I mostly try to live and be with them now. But being in the present is more difficult than it sounds, so I take it that the memories are allowed to come and go.”
