Maria Shriver shared a heartfelt message of support for her cousin, Tatiana Schlossberg, after Schlossberg publicly revealed she has terminal cancer at the age of 35.
Thirty-five-year-old Schlossberg shared in a recent essay for The New Yorker, titled ‘A Battle With My Blood,’ that she received a diagnosis last year.
A relative of hers – whose mother was the sister of John F. Kennedy, Schlossberg’s grandfather – recently offered words of encouragement.
Shriver spoke fondly of her cousin, calling her a wonderful person and praising her work for revealing the difficult experiences she’d been facing for over a year.
In a recent Instagram post, author Jennifer Shriver highly recommended a piece written by her cousin Caroline’s daughter, Tatiana. Shriver described Tatiana as a talented writer and a wonderful person – a wife, mother, and friend – and explained that the article details Tatiana’s experiences over the past year and a half.
This is a tribute to the doctors and nurses working tirelessly to care for others. It’s a powerful story, and I highly recommend reading it yourself. It’s a good reminder to appreciate everything you have in this moment. You can find the full story linked in my stories.
Accompanying the post were screenshots from Schlossberg’s New Yorker article.
In an article marking the 62nd anniversary of President Kennedy’s assassination, Caroline Schlossberg revealed she received a diagnosis of acute myeloid leukemia, a blood cancer, in May 2024.
Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg’s daughter shared that she felt completely healthy and hadn’t experienced any symptoms.
It’s just… terrifying, honestly. They only figured out something was wrong with her because of a normal check-up after she had her second baby. Can you believe it? Like, she could have gone on for ages not knowing, and I just… I keep thinking about that. It was just a routine blood test that saved her, which is amazing, but also so scary! It makes me check my own health constantly now.
Schlossberg explained that doctors discovered her condition after noticing an unusual number of white blood cells in her blood test.
A typical white blood cell count ranges from four to eleven thousand cells per microliter, but mine was much higher, at one hundred and thirty-one thousand cells per microliter, she explained.
The doctor said it might be a normal part of pregnancy and childbirth, but warned it could also be leukemia, she remembered.
Schlossberg was ultimately diagnosed with a rare genetic mutation called Inversion 3, and unfortunately, it couldn’t be treated with typical methods.
Schlossberg expressed her surprise at the news, explaining that even though she was nine months pregnant, she felt healthy and exercised regularly.
I was shocked – completely stunned – to hear them discussing me. Just the day before, I’d swum a full mile while nine months pregnant. I wasn’t ill at all, and I certainly didn’t feel sick. In fact, I was probably one of the healthiest people around at the time, according to her writing.
After giving birth, Schlossberg was hospitalized at Columbia-Presbyterian for five weeks. She then moved to Memorial Sloan Kettering to receive a bone-marrow transplant.
After that, she received intense chemotherapy treatments at home. Then, in January, she started a clinical trial for CAR-T-cell therapy, an innovative cancer treatment that uses the body’s own immune system to fight blood cancers.
After receiving the difficult news, Schlossberg learned from her doctors that she had approximately one year to live.
Schlossberg expressed sadness about how her diagnosis affected her family, which has unfortunately experienced many hardships and public controversies.
Schlossberg expressed sadness about how her diagnosis affected her family, which has a well-known history of hardship and controversy.
The family has experienced significant loss, beginning with the assassination of her grandfather, President John F. Kennedy, in 1963, followed by the murder of her uncle, Robert F. Kennedy, in 1968.
A year later, Ted Kennedy, John F. Kennedy’s younger brother, was involved in a tragic car accident on Chappaquiddick Island in Massachusetts. The car went off a bridge, resulting in the death of his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne. This event led Kennedy to wonder if a terrible fate truly haunted his family.
In her essay, Schlossberg explained that she’s always strived to be a good person – a dedicated student, a supportive sister, and a dutiful daughter. She especially wanted to shield her mother from any distress or anger.
I’ve brought another hardship into her life, and into our family’s, and I feel helpless to change it.
Caroline Kennedy, Schlossberg’s mother, was the US Ambassador to Australia from 2022 to 2024, appointed by President Joe Biden. Before that, she served as the US Ambassador to Japan during Barack Obama’s presidency.
Schlossberg also thanked her husband, Dr. George Moran, for his support during her medical treatment.
I truly don’t know what I would have done without George. He went above and beyond for me, handling all the difficult conversations with doctors and insurance companies that I just couldn’t face. He even sacrificed his own comfort, sleeping on the hospital floor to be there for me. He really did everything he possibly could.
She explained that her parents, along with her siblings, have been heavily involved in caring for her children and have been at her side in the hospital nearly every day for the past year and a half.
They’ve been incredibly supportive through my difficult times, hiding their own hurt to shield me from feeling worse.
‘This has been a great gift, even though I feel their pain every day.’
The rare and fast-growing leukemia diagnosed in Schlossberg, called acute myeloid leukemia with Inversion 3, is often hard to detect.
This cancer is very aggressive and difficult to treat, with only 15 to 20 percent of patients surviving for five years after diagnosis.
Because of its genetic makeup, the diagnosis is often resistant to standard chemotherapy.
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