Watch: Kate Middleton and Jessie J Have Emotional Moment After Bonding Over Cancer JourneysTatiana Schlossberg is bravely fighting a difficult health battle. The 35-year-old daughter of Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg shared that she has been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, a rare blood cancer, with doctors giving her a terminal prognosis. In an essay for The New Yorker published Nov. 22, Schlossberg explained that she learned of her disease hours after giving birth to her second baby with husband George Moran in May 2024, when her doctor discovered that her white blood cell count was abnormally high. "It could just be something related to pregnancy and delivery, the doctor said, or it could be leukemia," she recalled. "'It's not leukemia,' I told George. 'What are they talking about?'" After receiving her diagnosis, the environmental journalist-who also shares 3-year-old Edwin Jr. with Moran-was told she would need months of chemotherapy as well as a bone-marrow transplant, admitting she had difficulty absorbing the sharp turn of events. "I did not-could not-believe that they were talking about me," she recalled. "I had swum a mile in the pool the day before, nine months pregnant. I wasn't sick. I didn't feel sick. I was actually one of the healthiest people I knew."readIsabella Strahan Details Her Transition Back to School After Cancer Treatment"I had a son whom I loved more than anything and a newborn I needed to take care of," Schlossberg continued. "This could not possibly be my life." In January, Schlossberg embarked on a clinical trial of CAR-T-cell therapy, an immunotherapy meant to fight certain blood cancers. After several rounds of the trial, her doctor informed her that she likely has one year to live. Amid her cancer journey, Schlossberg noted that her husband "did everything for me that he possibly could," adding that her family, including her siblings Jack Schlossberg and Rose Schlossberg, also stepped up for her.
Craig Barritt/Getty Images for New York Magazine"My parents and my brother and sister, too, have been raising my children and sitting in my various hospital rooms almost every day for the last year and a half," she wrote. "They have held my hand unflinchingly while I have suffered, trying not to show their pain and sadness in order to protect me from it. This has been a great gift, even though I feel their pain every day." Schlossberg also detailed her own feelings about her prognosis. "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 said. "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." As a result, Schlossberg is focused on the things she can control, like spending as much time as possible with her kids. "Mostly, I try to live and be with them now," she shared. "But being in the present is harder than it sounds, so I let the memories come and go."For a detailed guide to the Kennedy family, read on.
Everett/ShutterstockJoseph P. Kennedy and Rose KennedyJoseph Patrick "Joe" Kennedy married Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald on Oct. 7, 1914.
Bachrach/Getty ImagesBy 1932, they had nine children together: Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., John F. Kennedy, Rosemary Kennedy, Kathleen Kennedy, Eunice Kennedy, Patricia Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Jean Kennedy and Edward Kennedy.
Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty ImagesJoseph P. Kennedy Jr.
Born July 25, 1915, Joe Jr. was going to be president, as far as his father was concerned. He was a delegate to the 1940 Democratic National Convention and planned to run for Congress after he got out of the Navy. But the 29-year-old and his co-pilot Wilford John Willy were killed Aug. 12, 1944, when explosives they were carrying detonated prematurely while on a bombing run that was part of Operation Aphrodite. Neither pilot's body was ever recovered and their names are among those on the Tablets of the Missing at the Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial honoring casualties of World War II.
Mikki Ansin/Getty ImagesJohn F. KennedyIt was John, born May 29, 1917, who made it to Congress, then became a U.S. senator and ultimately was elected president in 1960. He married Jacqueline Bouvier on Sept. 12, 1953, and they welcomed daughter Caroline Kennedy on Nov. 27, 1957, and son John F. Kennedy Jr. on Nov. 25, 1960. A daughter, Arabella, was stillborn in 1956 and son Patrick, born prematurely on Aug. 7, 1963, lived for only 39 hours. JFK was assassinated on Nov. 22, 1963, one of the defining events of the 20th century.
Tatiana, Jack, Rose, Edwin, Caroline (Clodagh Kilcoyne/Getty Images)Caroline KennedyCaroline, the U.S. ambassador to Japan during the Obama administration and to Australia for the Biden administration, married Edwin "Ed" Schlossberg in 1986. They share daughters Rose Kennedy Schlossberg (born June 25, 1988) and Tatiana Kennedy Schlossberg (May 5, 1990) and son John "Jac