JFK's granddaughter, Tatiana Schlossberg, reveals terminal cancer diagnosis in heartbreaking essay

Former President John F. Kennedy's granddaughter, Tatiana Schlossberg, announced connected Saturday — precisely 62 years aft helium was assassinated — that she has terminal cancer.

The 35-year-old said she was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, with a uncommon mutation called Inversion 3, soon aft the commencement of her girl successful May 2024, and that doctors precocious told her she astir apt has astir a twelvemonth to live.

"My archetypal thought was that my kids, whose faces unrecorded permanently connected the wrong of my eyelids, wouldn’t retrieve me," she wrote successful an effort for The New Yorker. "My lad mightiness person a fewer memories, but he’ll astir apt commencement confusing them with pictures helium sees oregon stories helium hears."

She said she "didn’t ever truly get to instrumentality attraction of my daughter—I couldn’t alteration her diaper oregon springiness her a bath oregon provender her, each due to the fact that of the hazard of corruption aft my transplants. I was gone for astir fractional of her archetypal twelvemonth of life. I don’t cognize who, really, she thinks I am, and whether she volition consciousness oregon remember, erstwhile I americium gone, that I americium her mother."

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President John F. Kennedy's granddaughter, Tatiana Schlossberg, announced connected Saturday — precisely 62 years aft helium was assassinated — that she has terminal cancer. (Craig Barritt/Getty Images for New York Magazine)

She said the diagnosis was shocking due to the fact that she felt perfectly healthy.

"I did not—could not—believe that they were talking astir me," she wrote of the archetypal speech of leukemia. "I had swum a mile successful the excavation the time before, 9 months pregnant. I wasn’t sick. I didn’t consciousness sick. I was really 1 of the healthiest radical I knew."

She said the crab is mostly seen successful older patients and doctors often asked her if she had spent overmuch clip astatine Ground Zero successful New York City, which she had not.

Schlossberg, who is the girl of Caroline Kennedy, JFK’s oldest surviving daughter, described successful heartbreaking item her months connected extremity of antithetic treatments to bushed the cancer.

She went done a circular of chemotherapy to "reduce the fig of blast cells successful my bony marrow," past received a bone-marrow transplant with the assistance of her sister.

She said aft she went into remission and went location she had nary immune strategy and had to get each of her puerility vaccines again.

Tatiana Schlossberg with her parent Caroline Kennedy, member Jack Schlossberg and Prince William astatine the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. (Matt Stone/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)

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Then she relapsed, her doc telling her that leukemia with her mutation "liked to travel back."

At the opening of the year, she joined a objective proceedings of CAR-T-cell therapy, "a benignant of immunotherapy that has proved effectual against definite humor cancers."

That was followed by different circular of chemotherapy and a 2nd humor transfusion from an unrelated donor.

"During the latest objective trial, my doc told maine that helium could support maine live for a year, maybe," she wrote.

She besides wrote of her concerns aft her relative Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whom she called an "embarrassment," was nominated arsenic caput of Health and Human Services.

"Suddenly, the health-care strategy connected which I relied felt strained, shaky," she wrote. "Doctors and scientists astatine Columbia [Presbyterian hospital], including [her husband] George, didn’t cognize if they would beryllium capable to proceed their research, oregon adjacent person jobs."

Schlossberg was diagnosed soon aft the commencement of her girl past year.  (Nathan Congleton/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images )

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She praised the remainder of her family, whom she said sat astatine her bedside portion she endured treatments and took attraction of her children.

Of her husband, urologist George Moran, she wrote, "he is perfect, and I consciousness truthful cheated and truthful bittersweet that I don’t get to support surviving the fantastic beingness I had with this kind, funny, handsome genius I managed to find."

Her member Jack Schlossberg, who is moving for legislature successful New York, wrote connected his Instagram connected Saturday, "Life is short, fto it rip."

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Her mother’s cousin, Maria Shriver, shared her effort connected Instagram, writing, "If you tin lone work 1 happening today, delight marque instrumentality the clip for this bonzer portion of penning by my relative Caroline’s bonzer girl Tatiana. Tatiana is simply a beauteous writer, journalist, wife, mother, daughter, sister, and friend."

Tatiana added successful her essay, "For my full life, I person tried to beryllium good, to beryllium a bully pupil and a bully sister and a bully daughter, and to support my parent and ne'er marque her upset oregon angry. Now I person added a caller calamity to her life, to our family’s life, and there’s thing I tin bash to halt it."

Tatiana Schlossberg with member Jack Schlossberg successful 2013 watching their mother's confirmation proceeding successful Congress to go ambassador to Japan. (ImageCatcher News Service/Corbis via Getty Images)

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Robert F. Kennedy Sr., her mother, Caroline Kennedy’s uncle, was assassinated 5 years aft JFK, and on with having 2 siblings who died successful infancy, Caroline’s lone surviving brother, JFK Jr, died successful a level clang successful 1999.

Schlossberg’s grandmother, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, besides died of crab successful 1994, of non-Hodgkin lymphoma erstwhile she was 64.

She finished her effort by saying that she lives to beryllium with her children now.

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"But being successful the contiguous is harder than it sounds, truthful I fto the memories travel and go," she admitted. "So galore of them are from my puerility that I consciousness arsenic if I’m watching myself and my kids turn up astatine the aforesaid time."

She added, "Sometimes I instrumentality myself into reasoning I’ll retrieve this forever, I’ll retrieve this erstwhile I’m dead. Obviously, I won’t. But since I don’t cognize what decease is similar and there’s nary 1 to archer maine what comes aft it, I’ll support pretending. I volition support trying to remember."