Tatiana Schlossberg passed away just one month after announcing her battle with acute myeloid leukemia. She was 35 years old.
“Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning,” the JFK Library Foundation announced on Instagram on Tuesday on behalf of Schlossberg’s relatives. “She will always be in our hearts.”
The message was signed by the family: “George, Edwin, Josephine Moran Ed, Caroline, Jack, Rose and Rory.”
Schlossberg revealed her diagnosis in a New Yorker essay published in November, and was initially diagnosed in May 2024 and given a year to live.
Regarding treatment options, Schlossberg said, “Standard treatments are not curable.”
“I couldn’t believe they were talking about me,” she recalled in the essay.
“I swam a mile in the pool the day before, nine months pregnant. I wasn’t sick. I didn’t feel sick. In fact, I was one of the healthiest people I know.”
Schlossberg, who has a 3-year-old son and a 1-year-old daughter with her husband George Moran, added: “I had a son that I loved more than anything and a newborn baby that needed to be taken care of.”
She also talked about how her husband, whom she married in September 2017, has supported her through her health battle.
“George did everything he could for me,” she said. “He talked to all the doctors and insurance people I didn’t want to talk to and slept on the hospital floor.”
Tatiana’s brother, Jack Schlossberg, responded to her shocking essay on Instagram the next day.
Jack, 32, wrote: “Life is short. Let’s make the best of it” over a photo of a concrete road and blue sky.
“Tatiana is a beautiful writer, journalist, wife, mother, daughter, sister, and friend. This work is about what she has been through over the past year and a half. Tatiana’s cousin Maria Shriver also expressed her support,” she wrote on Instagram.
“This is an ode to all the doctors and nurses on the front lines of humanity. There’s a lot to it, but it’s best read for yourself and be shocked by one woman’s life story.”
