She dedicates herself entirely to environmental activism.
The curse of the "American royal family" has claimed dozens of lives, and recently tragedy has struck Tatiana Schlossberg. She is only 35 years old and is fighting a rare form of cancer.
It seems that one surname alone cannot symbolize misfortune, but for over half a century, the world has been talking about the Kennedy family curse. The most famous tragedy of this family occurred on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, when the 35th President of the United States from the Democratic Party, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was shot in a limousine during a visit to the city to speak to voters.
Footage showing his wife Jacqueline in a blood-stained pink suit trying to escape the car to save herself from bullets circulated around the world. She herself lived for another 31 years after the incident, married Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, but became a widow again seven years later. Jacqueline died in May 1994, two months shy of her 65th birthday and exactly four months after she was diagnosed with lymphoma. Notably, when the disease was first diagnosed, doctors gave quite optimistic forecasts, but metastases began to spread through her body too rapidly.
Some see the Kennedy family curse as true bad luck, some believe that unrealistic ambitions have doomed many clan members, while others think it is a series of simple coincidences. Regardless, misfortunes have pursued those with the blood of the "American royals" since the beginning of the last century and continue to this day — not long ago, John and Jacqueline Kennedy's youngest granddaughter, 35-year-old Tatiana Schlossberg, confessed that she has no more than a year to live.
35-year-old Tatiana Schlossberg, granddaughter of John and Jacqueline Kennedy, recently revealed that she is currently battling a rare form of blood cancer, but she has no chance of recovery — the disease is in its terminal stage. Tatiana is a journalist and writer, and she shared her tragedy in a column for NYTimes. In May 2024, she gave birth to her second child, and right in the maternity ward, doctors suspected something was wrong. The bleeding would not stop, so she was urgently taken for examination. The results were shocking — acute myeloid leukemia with a rare mutation that usually occurs only in very elderly patients.
Tatiana notes that she felt great before giving birth: she was raising her older child, working, and dedicating a lot of time to environmental activism. Doctors began emergency treatment: Tatiana Schlossberg underwent several courses of chemotherapy and a stem cell transplant, but the maximum time she managed to gain was one year of life. In a cruel twist of fate, she sent greetings in her essay to her cousin — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. He is a politician known for being a staunch supporter of the anti-vaccine movement and has also achieved cuts in U.S. spending on cancer research. Even the medication that helped stop Tatiana's bleeding after childbirth will soon be banned due to one of his initiatives.
According to Schlossberg, the most terrifying thing for her now is not the thought of imminent death, but the thought that her own children will not remember her. Her older son is only 4 years old, and her younger child is just over a year old, and all they will have left of her are photographs and videos.
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