Tatiana Schlossberg has died after her battle with acute myeloid leukemia.
The JFK Library Foundation, on behalf of Schlossberg’s extended family, announced the sad news on Tuesday.
“Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning,” the foundation shared on Instagram. “She will always be in our hearts.”
The message was signed by her family — “George, Edwin and Josephine Moran Ed, Caroline, Jack, Rose and Rory.”
Schlossberg shared she had been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia in an essay she wrote for the New Yorker published in November. She said that doctors told her she had a year to live after they discovered the disease in May 2024.
As for her treatment options, Schlossberg said she “could not be cured by a standard course.”
“I did not — could not — believe that they were talking about me,” she wrote. “I had swum a mile in the pool the day before, nine months pregnant. I wasn’t sick. I didn’t feel sick. I was actually one of the healthiest people I knew.”
“I had a son whom I loved more than anything and a newborn I needed to take care of,” Schlossberg, who shared a 3-year-old son and 1-year-old daughter with her husband, George Moran, added.
She also shared how her husband supported her. She and Moran tied the knot in 2017.
“George did everything for me that he possibly could,” she noted. “He talked to all the doctors and insurance people that I didn’t want to talk to; he slept on the floor of the hospital.”
Schlossberg’s brother, Jack Schlossberg, reacted to her devastating essay on Instagram the day it came out, posting a photo of a concrete road followed by a picture of a blue sky.
“Life is short — let it rip,” Jack, 32, wrote atop both images.
Tatiana’s cousin Maria Shriver also shared her support for her amid the mother of two’s terminal cancer diagnosis.
“Tatiana is a beautiful writer, journalist, wife, mother, daughter, sister, and friend,” Shriver, 70, shared. “This piece is about what she has been going through for the last year and a half.
“It’s an ode to all the doctors and nurses who toil on the frontlines of humanity. It’s so many things, but best to read it yourself, and be blown away by one woman’s life story.”
