Tatiana Schlossberg, a granddaughter of President John F. Kennedy, has died.

She was 35.

Schlossberg’s family announced her passing on Tuesday.

The author and journalist revealed last month in an essay published by The New Yorker that she had been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia.

NBC News has more:

Schlossberg wrote in The New Yorker on Nov. 22 that she had acute myeloid leukemia, with a rare mutation called Inversion 3. She was diagnosed on May 25, 2024, when she gave birth to her second child and a doctor noticed her abnormally high white blood cell count and ordered further tests, she wrote.

She then spent five weeks at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital in New York before beginning chemotherapy at home and later receiving a bone marrow transplant.

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“During the latest clinical trial, my doctor told me that he could keep me alive for a year, maybe,” she wrote. “My first thought was that my kids, whose faces live permanently on the inside of my eyelids, wouldn’t remember me.”

She was the daughter of artist Edwin Schlossberg and diplomat Caroline Kennedy, the eldest child of John F. Kennedy.

Tatiana Schlossberg was an experienced and respected environmental journalist, having worked for The New York Times and contributed to publications such as The Atlantic and The Washington Post. Her book, “Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don’t Know You Have,” was published in 2019.

“Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning. She will always be in our hearts,” her family wrote in an Instagram post.

PEOPLE shared further:

Schlossberg wrote about receiving support from her parents, as well as her older sister, Rose, and younger brother, Jack, as she endured months of medical treatments. Rose was even a match to donate stem cells and did so for Schlossberg’s first transfusion.

“My brother was a half-match, but he still asked every doctor if maybe a half-match was better, just in case,” she wrote.

“[My family has] held my hand unflinchingly while I have suffered, trying not to show their pain and sadness in order to protect me from it. This has been a great gift, even though I feel their pain every day,” she added.

Schlossberg’s mother, Caroline, was just five days away from her 6th birthday when her father, President John F. Kennedy, was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. More than 30 years later, Caroline lost her only living sibling, John F. Kennedy Jr., in a tragic plane crash.

In her essay, Schlossberg made clear her devastation in bringing more grief to the family.

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“For my whole life, I have tried to be good, to be a good student and a good sister and a good daughter, and to protect my mother and never make her upset or angry,” she wrote. “Now I have added a new tragedy to her life, to our family’s life, and there’s nothing I can do to stop it.”

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