Environmental journalist Tatiana Schlossberg, granddaughter of President John F. Kennedy, has died from cancer at age 35, her family announced.
WASHINGTON: Tatiana Schlossberg, an American environmental journalist and granddaughter of the late President John F. Kennedy, has died from cancer at age 35.
Her family announced her death in a statement posted on the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation’s Instagram account on Tuesday.
“Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning. She will always be in our hearts,” the family wrote.
Schlossberg was a science and climate reporter for the New York Times.
She wrote about her diagnosis with acute myeloid leukemia in a November essay for The New Yorker.
Doctors detected the condition after finding an unusually high white blood cell count following the birth of her second child in May 2024.
The illness is mostly seen in older patients and among first responders to the 9/11 attacks in New York.
“During the latest clinical trial, my doctor told me that he could keep me alive for a year, maybe,” she wrote.
“My first thought was that my kids, whose faces live permanently on the inside of my eyelids, wouldn’t remember me.”
In her essay, she was deeply critical of her relative Robert F. Kennedy Jr., now the US health secretary.
She noted he has curtailed access to vaccines and slashed government medical research spending.
“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 wrote.
Schlossberg published widely in outlets including The Atlantic and Vanity Fair.
She authored the prize-winning 2019 book “Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don’t Know You Have.”
The daughter of designer Edwin Schlossberg and diplomat Caroline Kennedy, she is survived by her husband, physician George Moran, and their two children.
