Tatiana Schlossberg flashed a smile in a sweet photo of her children and husband George Moran, taken just before she died of cancer at the age of 35.
A photo posted to Instagram by the JFK Library Foundation on Monday shows Schlossberg smiling at the camera as Moran, her 3-year-old son Edwin, 1-year-old daughter Josephine and their dog sit on the grass.
Mr. Moran looked straight at his wife with a big smile on his face.
Josephine sat on her lap and Edwin stood behind his mother with his arm on her shoulder.
The family posed for photos in casual attire.
The JFK Library Foundation captioned the image: “Our hearts are with her family and all who loved her as we remember Tatiana and celebrate her life.”
The next slide in the post featured an excerpt from Schlossberg’s 2019 book, “Conspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don’t Know About.”
“It is up to us to create a nation that takes seriously its obligations to the planet, to each other, and to the people who will be born into a world that looks different than our world has for the last 10,000 years or so,” the excerpt reads.
“…Essentially, what I’m describing is hard work that may have limited success for the rest of our lives. But we have to do it, and at least we’ll have the satisfaction of having improved the situation.”
The excerpt concludes with, “…Now, it’s going to be fun (?).”
Schlossberg passed away on December 30th after a battle with acute myeloid leukemia.
“Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning,” the JFK Library Foundation announced on Instagram at the time. “She will always be in our hearts.”
The message was signed by the family. “George, Edwin, Josephine Moran (and) Ed, Caroline, Jack, Rose and Rory”.
Schlossberg detailed his diagnosis shortly after giving birth to Josephine in May 2024 in a November 2025 essay in The New Yorker.
Recalling how he received the startling news, the environmental journalist wrote: “I couldn’t believe they were talking about me, I couldn’t believe it,” adding that he was “one of the healthiest people” he knew.
Her treatment was grueling, requiring several rounds of chemotherapy and immunotherapy, as well as multiple bone marrow transplants.
“My sister was found to be a match and was scheduled to receive stem cells. (My brother was half-matched, but I asked all the doctors if a half-match would be better just to be sure),” she wrote.
Schlossberg marveled that Moran, 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 Moran as “perfect.”
“I feel so cheated and so sad that I won’t be able to continue living the wonderful life I’ve had with this kind, funny, handsome genius that I managed to find,” Schlossberg lamented.
She also thanked her parents, Caroline Kennedy and Ed Schlossberg, her brother, Jack Schlossberg, and her sister, Rose Schlossberg, for being with her during her hospital stay and helping care for her two young children.
“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 she 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.
Tatiana concluded her heartbreaking essay with this: “I’m trying to live and be with my kids right now. But living in the present is harder than I think, so I keep memories coming and going. A lot of them are from my childhood, so I feel like I’m watching myself and my kids grow up at the same time.”
“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.”
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.
