Tatiana Schlossberg, the granddaughter of JFK, has less than a year to live after being diagnosed with terminal leukemia, she announced Saturday.
“Maybe my brain is replaying my life now because I have a terminal diagnosis, and all these memories will be lost,” she writes in a searing article about her condition in the New Yorker.
Schlossberg, 35, whose parents are Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg, has acute myeloid leukemia with a rare mutation.
She described how her doctors discovered the cancer – just a few hours after she gave birth to her second child in 2024..
“A few hours later, my doctor noticed that my blood count looked strange. A normal white-blood-cell count is around four to eleven thousand cells per microliter. Mine was a hundred and thirty-one thousand cells per microliter,” she wrote.
A stunning image of Schlossberg, with her long, brunette hair chopped short and greying, accompanied the essay.
Doctors were curious if the illness was connected to the Sept. 11th, 2001 terror attacks.
“Every doctor I saw asked me if I had spent a lot of time at Ground Zero, given how common blood cancers are among first responders. I was in New York on 9/11, in the sixth grade, but I didn’t visit the site until years later.
“I am not elderly—I had just turned thirty-four,” she wrote.
Schlossberg described the shock of getting the bad news.
“I did not—could not—believe that they were talking about me. 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.”
The article by the political scion came Nov. 22 – the 62nd anniversary of her grandfather’s 1963 assassination.
Her brother, Jack Schlossberg, is running for Congress in the 12th Congressional District being vacated by Manhattan Rep. Jerold Nadler (D-NY).
This is a developing story.
