Tatiana Schlossberg, granddaughter of JFK, dies at 35 after leukemia reveal

Environmental journalist Tatiana Schlossberg, the granddaughter of late U.S. president John F. Kennedy, has died following a battle with terminal cancer at the age of 35.

Her family issued a https://www.instagram.com/p/DS5cxd6E2p_/ by the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation.

“Our beautiful Tatiana passed away (Tuesday) morning. She will always be in our hearts,” the statement read.

Schlossberg is the daughter of Kennedy’s daughter, Caroline Kennedy, and designer Edwin Schlossberg.

Public disclosure

In November, she revealed in a New Yorker essay that she was battling acute myeloid leukemia.

She said she was diagnosed in May 2024 at 34 when she was in the hospital for the birth of her second child. Her doctor had noticed her white blood cell count was high, which turned out to be a rare form of acute myeloid leukemia.

Schlossberg wrote she had undergone rounds of chemotherapy and two stem cell transplants and participated in clinical trials.

“During the latest clinical trial, my doctor told me that he could keep me alive for a year, maybe,” she wrote. “My first thought was that my kids, whose faces live permanently on the inside of my eyelids, wouldn’t remember me.”

Critical of cousin

Her essay also criticized her cousin Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of health and human services, for his opposition to government-funded medical research and vaccines.

Schlossberg was a reporter covering climate change and the environment for the Science section of The New York Times.

Maria Shriver, a niece of John F. Kennedy and a former award-winning TV journalist, remembered her as “valiant, strong, courageous” in a tribute posted on X.

“Tatiana was a great journalist, and she used her words to educate others about the earth and how to save it,” Shriver wrote.

She went on to add: “Tatiana was the light, the humour, the joy. 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…”