JFK’s Granddaughter Tatiana Schlossberg Criticizes Cousin RFK Jr. While Announcing Terminal Illness

Caroline Kennedy’s daughter Tatiana Schlossberg is coming forward with a devastating health update. The granddaughter of former President John F. Kennedy revealed in an emotional essay for the New Yorker that she has been battling a terminal cancer for the past year and a half, after being diagnosed following the birth of her second child in May 2024. “The diagnosis was acute myeloid leukemia, with a rare mutation called Inversion 3. It was mostly seen in older patients. Every doctor I saw asked me if I had spent a lot of time at Ground Zero, given how common blood cancers are among first responders. I was in New York on 9/11, in the sixth grade, but I didn’t visit the site until years later. I am not elderly—I had just turned thirty-four,” she explained. Later in the essay, Schlossberg took aim at her cousin, Health and Human Services Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., criticizing his actions as she also called him an “embarrassment to me and the rest of my immediate family.” “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 in part.