Jack Schlossberg reacts to his sister Tatiana’s terminal cancer diagnosis.
Over the weekend, Jack, the only son of Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg, posted a photo of a concrete road followed by a blue sky on his Instagram Story.
The 32-year-old wrote “Life is short, let’s tear it apart” above both photos.
Jack, who is running for Congress, also shared a screenshot of an excerpt from Tatiana’s New Yorker magazine essay detailing her diagnosis with acute myeloid leukemia shortly after giving birth to her second child with husband George Moran in May 2024.
Tatyana, 35, recalled hearing the shocking news, writing: “I couldn’t believe they were talking about me, I couldn’t believe it,” and described herself as “one of the healthiest people I know.”
Her treatment was grueling, requiring several rounds of chemotherapy and immunotherapy, as well as multiple bone marrow transplants.
“My sister (Rose Schlossberg) was found to be compatible and was scheduled to receive stem cells. (My brother was half compatible, but I asked all the doctors if half compatible would be better just to be sure),” she wrote.
Tatiana, an environmental journalist, said her husband, a doctor, “did everything he could for[her].
“He talked to all the doctors and insurance people I didn’t want to talk to, and slept on the hospital floor. He didn’t get angry when I was raging on steroids, and he yelled at me that I didn’t like Schweppes ginger ale, only Canada Dry. He went home, put the kids to bed, and came back and brought me dinner.”
She praised George as “perfect.”
“I feel so cheated and so sad that I won’t be able to continue living the wonderful life I had with the kind, funny, handsome genius I managed to find,” she lamented.
Tatyana also praised her parents, younger brother and 37-year-old sister for staying with her during her hospital stay and helping take care of her 3-year-old son and 18-month-old daughter.
“While I was suffering, they held my hand without flinching and tried not to show their pain or sadness to protect me. This was a great gift, even though I feel their pain every day,” she explained, admitting that part of her felt guilty for adding “another tragedy” to her mother’s life.
During Tatiana’s last clinical trial, Tatiana’s doctors told her that it could extend her life by “probably a year” but did not specify when that might be.
“My first thought was that my children, whose face was permanently stuck inside their eyelids, would not remember me,” she confessed.
“Mostly, I try to live with them now. But living in the present is harder than I think, so I let the memories come and go. Many of them are from my childhood, and I feel as if I am watching myself and my children grow up at the same time,” Tatyana concluded her heartbreaking essay.
“Sometimes I trick myself into thinking that I’ll remember this forever, that I’ll remember this even when I die. Of course I don’t. But I don’t know what death is like, and there’s no one to tell me what happens after death, so I keep pretending. I keep trying to remember.”
Like Jack, Maria Shriver encouraged her Instagram followers to read some powerful words written by her “special” cousin.
Tatiana’s maternal grandparents are former President John F. Kennedy, who was assassinated in 1963, and former first lady Jacqueline “Jackie” Kennedy Onassis, who died of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 1994.
