Tatiana Schlossberg, the beloved center little one of Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg, has died on the age of 35. The tragic information was shared on December 30 by the JFK Library Basis on behalf of Tatiana’s prolonged household.
“Our lovely Tatiana handed away this morning. She’s going to at all times be in our hearts,” the publish learn, signed by “George, Edwin and Josephine Moran, Ed, Caroline, Jack, Rose and Rory.”
Schlossberg had publicly revealed her battle with acute myeloid leukemia in a heartfelt essay for The New Yorker in November 2025. She disclosed that docs found the illness whereas she was hospitalized after giving beginning to her second little one, a daughter. Tatiana and her husband, George Moran, who married in 2017, additionally share a son.
“I didn’t — couldn’t — imagine that they have been speaking about me,” she wrote about her analysis, which required chemotherapy and a bone-marrow transplant. “I had swum a mile within the pool the day earlier than, 9 months pregnant. I wasn’t sick. I didn’t really feel sick. I used to be truly one of many healthiest individuals I knew.”
Within the essay, Schlossberg highlighted the unwavering assist of her mother and father and siblings throughout her remedy. Her older sister, Rose, even donated stem cells for her first transfusion.
“My brother was a half-match, however he nonetheless requested each physician if possibly a half-match was higher, simply in case,” she wrote.
“[My family has] held my hand unflinchingly whereas I’ve suffered, making an attempt to not present their ache and unhappiness in an effort to defend me from it. This has been a terrific present, although I really feel their ache on daily basis,” she added.
Schlossberg, who earned a BA in Historical past from Yale and a grasp’s in American historical past from Oxford, was deeply linked to her household’s legacy. Her mom, Caroline, was simply days from her sixth birthday when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, and later misplaced her solely sibling, John F. Kennedy Jr., in a airplane crash.
“For my entire life, I’ve tried to be good, to be an excellent scholar and an excellent sister and an excellent daughter, and to guard my mom and by no means make her upset or offended,” Tatiana mirrored. “Now I’ve added a brand new tragedy to her life, to our household’s life, and there’s nothing I can do to cease it.”
Even in her closing months, Schlossberg targeted on her household. “George would go house to place our children to mattress and are available again to deliver me dinner. I do know that not everybody will be married to a physician, however, should you can, it’s an excellent concept,” she wrote. “He’s good, and I really feel so cheated and so unhappy that I don’t get to maintain residing the great life I had with this type, humorous, good-looking genius I managed to search out.”
