The granddaughter of JFK has been diagnosed with terminal cancer
The granddaughter of JFK has been diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Former US President John F. Kennedy's granddaughter has revealed that she has an aggressive type of cancer.
According to Tatiana Schlossberg, her prognosis is less than a year.
On Saturday, the 62nd anniversary of her grandfather's murder, the 35-year-old revealed the information in an essay that appeared in The New Yorker.
The mother-of-two climate journalist has been a vocal opponent of President Donald Trump's appointment of her relative Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as US health secretary.
In her essay, Schlossberg talks about how, while fighting her illness, she was alarmed to see her cousin accepted for the position.
Schlossberg is the daughter of diplomat Caroline Kennedy and designer Edwin Schlossberg. She is the granddaughter of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States.
After delivering birth in May 2024, Schlossberg was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia, according to her article A Battle With My Blood.
Running, skiing, and even swimming in the Hudson River in New York were all part of her once-healthy lifestyle, which she characterised as "eerily, to raise money for the Leukaemia and Lymphoma Society".
She claimed that despite treatment, which included chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant, the results do not appear promising.
"During the latest clinical trial, my doctor told me that he could keep me alive for a year, maybe," she states.
"My first thought was that my kids, whose faces live permanently on the inside of my eyelids, wouldn't remember me."
Schlossberg gave birth to a daughter in 2024 and a son in 2022.
Schlossberg, whose grandmother Jacqueline passed away from cancer when Schlossberg was a toddler and whose uncle John F. Kennedy Jr. died in a plane crash at the age of 38, also talks of the anguish she worries her death would give her mother, a former US ambassador to Australia and Japan.
"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," she writes in her essay.
"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 also expressed her displeasure at seeing her cousin, RFK Jr., whose father, Robert F. Kennedy, was also slain during his presidential campaign, take over as Trump's health secretary.
"I watched from my hospital bed as Bobby, in the face of logic and common sense, was confirmed for the position, despite never having worked in medicine, public health, or the government," she says.
"Suddenly, the healthcare system on which I relied felt strained, shaky."
Jack Schlossberg, her brother, declared earlier this month that he intends to run for New York Congress.
On Saturday, he posted her piece online, captioning it, "Life is short - let it rip."
The Kennedy family has a well-known reputation in American society thanks to its generations-long involvement in US politics and the personal tragedy that frequently affected its members.
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