11/23/2025
Tatiana Schlossberg, the granddaughter of late President John F. Kennedy and sister of Jack Schlossberg, announced Saturday that she may have less than a year to live after a cancer diagnosis.
In an essay in the New Yorker published Nov. 22 — 62 years to the day after JFK was assassinated — the 35-year-old journalist said that after she gave birth to her second child in May 2024, doctors noticed her white-blood-cell count “looked strange.” She was shortly afterward diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, with a rare mutation called Inversion 3. Schlossberg said after several clinical trials and two transplants, her doctor told her he could keep her “alive for a year, maybe.”
“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,” she wrote in the essay, which also discussed anguish over the family’s numerous tragedies. “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.”
