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Tatiana Schlossberg – the middle child of Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg and granddaughter of former President John F. Kenney – died on Tuesday, December 30.
He was 35 years old.
The sad news came a month after Schlossberg told the world that he had been diagnosed with cancer.
The obituary was shared by the social media accounts of the JFK Library Foundation… on behalf of Tatiana’s family.
“Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning. She will always be in our hearts,” read the page, signed by George, Edwin and Josephine Moran, Ed, Caroline, Jack, Rose and Rory.
In November, Schlossberg announced that he had been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia in an article published by The New Yorker.
“My first thought was that my children, whose face lives forever inside my eyelids, will not remember me,” he wrote at the time.
Tatiana Schlossberg attends her book signing at the In goop Health Summit San Francisco 2019 at Craneway Pavilion on November 16, 2019 in Richmond, California. (Photo by Amber De Vos/Getty Images for goop)Schlossberg explained in the clip that doctors discovered the disease while she was in the hospital after giving birth to her second child, a daughter. She and husband George Moran, who married in 2017, also have a son.
I didn’t — I couldn’t believe they were talking about me,” Schlossberg wrote of his diagnosis, which would require chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant.
“I swam a mile in the lake the day before yesterday, nine months pregnant. I wasn’t sick. I didn’t feel sick. I was actually one of the healthiest people I knew.”
Tatiana Schlossberg, granddaughter of former US President John F Kennedy speaks during a memorial service in Runnymede, Surrey on November 22, 2013, to mark the 50th anniversary of his assassination. (AFP Photo / BEN STANSALL)The famous Schlossberg family has endured many personal tragedies.
His grandfather, President Kennedy, was assassinated in 1963; and his uncle, John F Kennedy Jr, died in a plane crash in 1999.
“All my 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 angry or angry with her,” Tatiana wrote last month.
“Now I have added a new tragedy to his life, to the life of our family, and there is nothing I can do to stop it.”
Schlossberg also did not hesitate to talk to the man he considered a “disgrace” to the Kennedy family: his mother’s cousin, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who was chosen to serve as President Donald Trump’s secretary of health and human services while fighting for his life amid multiple treatments, blood transfusions and hospital stays.
“I’m trying to live and be with them now,” Schlossberg wrote of her children a few weeks ago. But being present is harder than it sounds, so I let the memories come back.” So many of them are from my childhood that I feel like I’m watching myself and my children grow up at the same time.
“Sometimes I fool myself into thinking that I will remember this forever, I will remember this when I die. Obviously I won’t.”
“But since I don’t know what death is like and no one will tell me what will happen after it, I will keep pretending.
