Tatiana Schlossberg, granddaughter of JFK, reveals terminal cancer diagnosis
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Tatiana Schlossberg, granddaughter of slain President John F.Kennedy, is battling a rare form of leukemia and may have less than a year to live.In an essay published Saturday in the New Yorker, the 35-year-old environmental journalist wrote her illness was discovered in May 2024 after she gave birth to her daughter.
She was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia with a rare mutation known as Inversion 3 and has undergone several treatments, including chemotherapy and bone marrow transplants.Schlossberg is a daughter of former U.S.Ambassador Caroline Kennedy, the former president’s daughter, and Edwin Schlossberg.
They live in New York.In her essay, Schlossberg acknowledged that her terminal illness adds to a string of tragedies that has befallen the famous political family.Her grandfather was assassinated in Dallas in 1963.
Nearly five years later, his brother, Sen.Robert F.
Kennedy, was fatally shot in Los Angeles after giving a victory speech at the Ambassador Hotel following his California presidential primary win.Her uncle, John F.
Kennedy Jr., died in 1999 when his small plane crashed.“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,” Schlossberg wrote.
“Now I have added a new tragedy to her life, to our family’s life, and there’s nothing I can do to stop it.” California The Trump administration recently released a cache of classified files on the 1968 assassination of Robert F.Kennedy in California, leaving attorneys for convicted gunman Sirhan Sirhan combing for new evidence in a case that has spawned many conspiracy theories.She wrote her diagnosis was stunning.
She had just turned 34, didn’t feel sick and was physically active, including swimming a mile one day before she gave birth to her second child at Columbia-Presbyterian hospital i...