Tatiana Schlossberg Shares Her Heartfelt Pain Over Her Mother’s Latest Heartbreak

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NEED TO KNOW

• Caroline Kennedy’s daughter, Tatiana Schlossberg, expressed regret for bringing “another tragedy” to her family in an emotional essay about her terminal diagnosis.
• Schlossberg passed away on December 30 after revealing her acute myeloid leukemia diagnosis a month earlier.
• She is survived by her husband, George Moran, and their two young children.

Tatiana Schlossberg shared her terminal diagnosis in an emotional essay published in November 2025. In her writing, she expressed profound regret for adding another tragedy to her family’s history, particularly affecting her mother, Caroline Kennedy.

The middle child of Caroline Kennedy and husband Edwin Schlossberg, Tatiana died at the age of 35. Her family announced her passing via social media, stating, “Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning. She will always be in our hearts.”

Tatiana revealed her diagnosis in an essay published in The New Yorker on November 22, stating she first learned of the illness while hospitalized after the birth of her second child, a daughter. She and George Moran, who married in 2017, also have a son.

In her heartfelt essay, Tatiana lamented that her young children would not remember her after her death. She expressed her sorrow for her mother, the only living child of John F. Kennedy and Jackie Kennedy, whose family has endured numerous tragedies.

“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.

Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg hugs daughter Tatiana Schlossberg outside the JFK Library after handing out the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award on May 22, 2000.

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Caroline Kennedy was just five days shy of her sixth birthday when her father was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Over three decades later, she lost her only sibling, John F. Kennedy Jr., in a tragic plane crash. The Kennedy family has been marked by numerous untimely deaths and unfortunate circumstances.

In her writings, Tatiana reflected on the despair of having inflicted yet another tragedy on her family, stating, “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.”

In her final months, she focused on spending time with her family, especially her husband and children. “[George] is perfect,” she noted of her husband’s support during her treatment, adding, “I feel so cheated and so sad that I don’t get to keep living the wonderful life I had with this kind, funny, handsome genius I managed to find.”

Her thoughts frequently turned to her children after receiving a prognosis suggesting she had “a year, maybe” to live, lamenting that “my kids, whose faces live permanently on the inside of my eyelids, wouldn’t remember me.”

Tatiana further conveyed her worries about her children’s memories of her, acknowledging, “My son might have a few memories, but he’ll probably start confusing them with pictures he sees or stories he hears.”

She also expressed sadness about missing out on vital moments with her daughter due to health issues, explaining, “I don’t know who, really, she thinks I am, and whether she will feel or remember, when I am gone, that I am her mother.”

“Mostly, I try to live and be with them now,” Schlossberg added, recognizing the difficulty of staying present. “So many of [my memories] are from my childhood that I feel as if I’m watching myself and my kids grow up at the same time.”

In a poignant conclusion, she mused, “Sometimes I trick myself into thinking I’ll remember this forever. Obviously, I won’t. But since I don’t know what death is like and there’s no one to tell me what comes after it, I’ll keep pretending. I will keep trying to remember.”