Tatiana Schlossberg Shares Heartbreaking 'Terminal Cancer' Diagnosis
Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy and her husband Edwin Schlossberg, has revealed that she was diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Schlossberg is one of Caroline's three kids with her husband. The other two kids are named Jack and Rose. Schlossberg revealed her cancer diagnosis in an article published by The New Yorkeron November 22. She also shared that she was told she has only a year left to live.
Tatiana Schlossberg "has terminal cancer," People reported. She has children 3 and 1 years old with her husband George Moran, according to People.
"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, to our family’s life, and there’s nothing I can do to stop it," she wrote in The New Yorker.
“When you are dying, at least in my limited experience, you start remembering everything.” Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy, writes about receiving a terminal diagnosis. https://t.co/cqpafPbNOj
— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) November 22, 2025
She added: "My parents and my brother and sister, too, have been raising my children and sitting in my various hospital rooms almost every day for the last year and a half. They have held my hand unflinchingly while I have suffered, trying not to show their pain and sadness in order to protect me from it. This has been a great gift, even though I feel their pain every day.”
The revelation has sparked renewed talk about a so-called "Kennedy curse" due the number of untimely deaths in the family, including the death of JFK Jr. in a plane crash, President John F. Kennedy and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy to assassins' bullets, and several Kennedy siblings and cousins. According to People, the allegation of a supposed "Kennedy curse" dates back years and was given currency by U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy.
Tatiana Schlossberg Described Her Cancer Diagnosis & Treatment
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Tatiana Schlossberg wrote that she was diagnosed with the illness in May 2024 after giving birth to her second child.
“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.
“It could just be something related to pregnancy and delivery, the doctor said, or it could be leukemia,” she added, indicating that she was diagnosed with “a rare mutation called Inversion 3.”
A "standard course" of treatment didn't work. She received bone-marrow and chemotherapy treatments.
“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," she added in the article.
Ted Kennedy Came Up With the So-Called 'Kennedy Curse'
The so-called "Kennedy Curse" got new currency when JFK Jr., Caroline's brother, died tragically in a plane crash with his wife and her sister.
But that's hardly the only Kennedy family tragedy. There's also the assassinations of JFK and RFK Sr., the deaths of Kennedy siblings Joseph P. Kennedy and Kathleen Kennedy in plane crashes during World War II, and Jackie Kennedy Onassis's rather untimely death from cancer. There's also the horror of Chappaquiddick, although the woman who died was not a member of the Kennedy family.
David Kennedy and Michael Kennedy also died young. They were the children of Robert F. Kennedy and his wife Ethel. According to People, David died of an overdose, and Michael died in a ski accident. Other Kennedy relatives have also died in tragedy, including RFK Jr.'s ex-wife Mary Kennedy by suicide and Saoirse Kennedy Hill, who died of an accidental overdose. Maeve Kennedy Townsend McKean, another RFK granddaughter, died after going missing in Chesapeake Bay.
According to People, it was former U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy, who was accused of leaving a young woman to die in a submerged car, who came up with the idea of a "Kennedy curse."
"Generally, they did not believe in the curse," The Kennedy Heirs author J. Randy Taraborrelli told People in 2019, referring to the Kennedy family. “It was Ted Kennedy who came up with the concept of the curse after Chappaquiddick, when he was giving his public address — and said he wondered if perhaps that explained the terrible things that had happened to the family, including the death of Mary Jo Kopechne. And after that, the Kennedy curse became this sort of wide-ranging explanation for a lot of things that were happening. But when things got rough for them, I think they slipped into wondering if maybe there really was some kind of curse.”