In this tough and moving essay, Caroline Kennedy’s 35-year-old daughter Tatiana Schlossberg reveals that she is terminally ill with leukemia. She has some choice words about how her cousin Bobby has made the limited time she has left worse. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-…
— Mark Harris (@markharris.bsky.social) November 22, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Tatiana Schlossberg (35) is Caroline Kennedy’s daughter, granddaughter of President John F. Kennedy, Jack Schlossberg’s sister, and RFK Jr.’s cousin
Hours after giving birth to her daughter Tatiana was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia with a rare mutation
The treatments are not working and she has been given less than 12 months to live
She feels awful that her kids won’t remember her
“My son might have a few memories, but he’ll probably start confusing them with pictures he sees or stories he hears. I didn’t ever really get to take care of my daughter—I couldn’t change her diaper or give her a bath or feed her.”
She feels awful about giving her mother another tragedy
“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. Now I have added a new tragedy to her life”
She call out her cousin RFK Jr. (Bobby) for cutting cancer research
As I spent more and more of my life under the care of doctors, nurses, and researchers striving to improve the lives of others, I watched as Bobby cut nearly a half billion dollars for research into mRNA vaccines, technology that could be used against certain cancers; slashed billions in funding from the National Institutes of Health, the world’s largest sponsor of medical research; and threatened to oust the panel of medical experts charged with recommending preventive cancer screenings. Hundreds of N.I.H. grants and clinical trials were cancelled, affecting thousands of patients. I worried about funding for leukemia and bone-marrow research at Memorial Sloan Kettering. I worried about the trials that were my only shot at remission.
