Tatiana Schlossberg, daughter of Caroline Kennedy and granddaughter of President John F. Kennedy, has died following a battle with terminal cancer.<\/p>\n
“Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning,” the JFK Library Foundation said in a statement on Tuesday. “She will always be in our hearts.”<\/p>\n
The 35-year-old environmental journalist revealed in an emotional essay in The New Yorker last month that she was diagnosed with a “rare mutation” of acute myeloid leukemia in May 2024 after giving birth to her second child.<\/p>\n
She wrote in the essay, “During the latest clinical trial, my doctor told me that he could keep me alive for a year, maybe. My first thought was that my kids, whose faces live permanently on the inside of my eyelids, wouldn’t remember me.”<\/p>\n
“My son might have a few memories, but he’ll probably start confusing them with pictures he sees or stories he hears,” she wrote. “I didn’t ever really get to take care of my daughter — I couldn’t change her diaper or give her a bath or feed her, all because of the risk of infection after my transplants. I was gone for almost half of her first year of life. I don’t know who, really, she thinks I am, and whether she will feel or remember, when I am gone, that I am her mother.”<\/p>\n
She ended her essay talking about trying to “live and be with” her children.<\/p>\n
“But being in the present is harder than it sounds, so I let the memories come and go,” she wrote. “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. 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.”<\/p>\n
She’s survived by her husband, George Moran, their young son and daughter, as well as her parents, Caroline Kennedy and Ed Schlossberg, and siblings Rose and Jack Schlossberg.<\/p>\n
One of her relatives, the journalist and commentator Maria Shriver, remembered her as “valiant, strong, courageous” in a tribute posted on X.<\/p>\n
“Tatiana was a great journalist, and she used her words to educate others about the earth and how to save it,” Shriver, a niece of former President John F. Kennedy, said.<\/p>\n
“Tatiana was the light, the humor, the joy,” she continued. “She was smart, wicked smart, as they say, and sassy. She was fun, funny(,) loving, caring, a perfect daughter, sister, mother, cousin, niece, friend, all of it…”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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