Tatiana Schlossberg, Granddaughter of JFK, Lifeless at 35

Studying Time: 3 minutes

Tatiana Schlossberg — the center baby of Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg and the granddaughter of former President John F. Kenney — died on Tuesday, December 30.

She was 35 years outdated.

The tragic information got here simply after a month since Schlossberg advised the world she had been identified with most cancers.

Tatiana Schlossberg attends Intelligencer Reside: Our Hotter Future offered by New York Journal and Brookfield Place on September 5, 2019 in New York Metropolis. (Picture by Craig Barritt/Getty Photos for New York Journal)

The passing was shared by the social media accounts for the JFK Library Basis… on behalf of Tatiana’s prolonged household.

“Our stunning Tatiana handed away this morning. She is going to all the time be in our hearts,” learn the publish, which was signed by George, Edwin and Josephine Moran, Ed, Caroline, Jack, Rose and Rory.

In November, Schlossberg introduced that she had been identified with acute myeloid leukemia through an essay revealed by The New Yorker.

“My first thought was that my youngsters, whose faces stay completely on the within of my eyelids, wouldn’t keep in mind me,” she wrote on the time.

Tatiana Schlossberg attends her guide signing on the In goop Well being Summit San Francisco 2019 at Craneway Pavilion on November 16, 2019 in Richmond, California. (Picture by Amber De Vos/Getty Photos for goop)

Schlossberg defined on this piece that medical doctors discovered the illness whereas she was within the hospital after giving delivery to her second child, a daughter. She and husband George Moran, who acquired married in 2017, additionally share a son.

I didn’t — couldn’t — consider that they had been speaking about me,” Schlossberg wrote of her prognosis, which might require chemotherapy and a bone-marrow transplant.

“I had swum a mile within the pool the day earlier than, 9 months pregnant. I wasn’t sick. I didn’t really feel sick. I used to be really one of many healthiest individuals I knew.”

Tatiana Schlossberg, granddaughter of former US President John F Kennedy speaks throughout a memorial service in Runnymede, Surrey on November 22, 2013, to mark the fiftieth anniversary of his assassination. (AFP PHOTO / BEN STANSALL)

Schlossberg’s well-known household has endured quite a few private tragedies.

Her grandfather, President Kennedy, was assassinated in 1963; and her uncle, John F Kennedy Jr, died in a aircraft crash in 1999.

“For my complete life, I’ve tried to be good, to be a great scholar and a great sister and a great daughter, and to guard my mom and by no means make her upset or indignant,” Tatiana wrote final month.

“Now I’ve added a brand new tragedy to her life, to our household’s life, and there’s nothing I can do to cease it.”

Schlossberg additionally didn’t shy from addressing the person who she deemed an “embarrassment” to the Kennedy household: her mom’s cousin, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who was chosen to function President Donald Trump’s well being and human companies secretary whereas she was preventing for her life throughout a number of therapies, transfusions and hospital stays.

“I attempt to stay and be with them now,” Schlossberg wrote of her youngsters a couple of weeks in the past. “However being within the current is tougher than it sounds, so I let the reminiscences come and go. So lots of them are from my childhood that I really feel as if I’m watching myself and my youngsters develop up on the identical time.

“Typically I trick myself into pondering I’ll keep in mind this ceaselessly, I’ll keep in mind this after I’m lifeless. Clearly, I gained’t.

“However since I don’t know what demise is like and there’s nobody to inform me what comes after it, I’ll maintain pretending. I’ll maintain making an attempt to recollect.”