A new photo of Tatiana Schlossberg has been released one week after her death at age 35.
“As we remember Tatiana and celebrate her life, our hearts are with her family and all who loved her,” read the caption of an Instagram post shared by the JFK Library Foundation on Monday, January 5.
In the photo, Schlossberg smiled brightly while sitting on the grass alongside her husband, George Moran, and their two children: son Edwin, 3, and daughter Josephine, 18 months. Schlossberg’s hair was notably short, likely as a result of her cancer treatment.
The portrait was reportedly taken in September 2025 on Martha’s Vineyard.
A second slide in the social media upload referenced a quote from Schlossberg’s book Inconspicuous Consumption, reflecting on the “obligations” people have “to the planet, to each other, and to the people who will be born into a world that looks different than ours has for the last 10,000 years or so.”
“Essentially what I’m describing is hard work with possibly limited success for the rest of your life,” the quote continued. “But we have to do it, and at least we will have the satisfaction of knowing we made things better.”
Schlossberg — the daughter of Caroline Kennedy and granddaughter of John F. Kennedy — announced in November 2025 that she was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia after giving birth to her daughter more than one year prior.
“I did not — could not — believe that they were talking about me,” she wrote in an essay for The New Yorker while recalling her diagnosis. “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 began a clinical trial of CAR-T-cell therapy before ultimately finding out her cancer was terminal. She died on December 30, 2025.
While reflecting on her health battle, Schlossberg noted that her first concern was her children.
“My son might have a few memories, but he’ll probably start confusing them with pictures he sees or stories he hears,” she wrote in her November 2025 essay. “I didn’t ever really get to take care of my daughter — I couldn’t change her diaper or give her a bath or feed her, all because of the risk of infection after my transplants. I was gone for almost half of her first year of life. I don’t know who, really, she thinks I am, and whether she will feel or remember, when I am gone, that I am her mother.”
She went on to praise her husband, who “did everything for me that he possibly could” while she was sick.
“I know that not everyone can be married to a doctor, but, if you can, it’s a very good idea,” she continued. “He is perfect, and I feel so cheated and so sad that I don’t get to keep living the wonderful life I had with this kind, funny, handsome genius I managed to find.”
Along with her husband and children, Tatiana is survived by mom Caroline and dad Edwin Schlossberg, as well as siblings Jack and Rose.
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