JFK’s Granddaughter Tatiana Schlossberg Issues Blunt Takedown of RFK Jr. Amid Terminal Cancer Diagnosis

John F. Kennedy‘s granddaughter, Tatiana Schlossberg, 35, revealed her terminal cancer diagnosis while issuing a brutal takedown of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.‘s health policies.

On Saturday, November 22, Tatiana, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg, published an essay in The New Yorker about her heartbreaking health battle. Tatiana — who shares a son, 3, and a daughter, 1, with her husband, George Moran — explained that she found out about her acute myeloid leukemia after giving birth to their second child in May 2024.

“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 explained.

“I did not — could not — believe that they were talking about me,” Tatiana recalled of learning her treatment plan. “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. … I had a son whom I loved more than anything and a newborn I needed to take care of.”

After undergoing chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant, Tatiana joined a clinical trial of CAR-T-cell therapy in January 2025. Her doctor later told her she had a year left to live.

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Later in her essay, the young mom of two sent a blunt message RFK Jr.’s cuts to vaccine and cancer research as the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services. (RFK Jr. and Caroline are first cousins.)

“As I spent more and more of my life under the care of doctors, nurses, and researchers striving to improve the lives of others, I watched as Bobby cut nearly a half billion dollars for research into mRNA vaccines, technology that could be used against certain cancers; slashed billions in funding from the National Institutes of Health, the world’s largest sponsor of medical research; and threatened to oust the panel of medical experts charged with recommending preventive cancer screenings,” she wrote. “Hundreds of N.I.H. grants and clinical trials were cancelled, affecting thousands of patients. I worried about funding for leukemia and bone-marrow research at Memorial Sloan Kettering. I worried about the trials that were my only shot at remission.”

She also pointed out the real-life implications of the drug misoprostol being “under review” by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration at RFK Jr.’s urging.

“Early in my illness, when I had the postpartum hemorrhage, I was given a dose of misoprostol to help stop the bleeding. This drug is part of medication abortion,” she shared. “I freeze when I think about what would have happened if it had not been immediately available to me and to millions of other women who need it to save their lives or to get the care they deserve.”

Tatiana, whose siblings include Jack Schlossberg, 32, and Rose Schlossberg, 37, also lamented, “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.”