Tatiana Schlossberg is seen smiling with her family in a newly released photo taken three months before her death at age 35.
On Monday, Jan. 5, the JFK Library Foundation shared an image taken on Martha’s Vineyard in September. In it, Schlossberg sits on the grass with her husband, George Moran, and their two young children, son Edwin and daughter Josephine.
“As we remember Tatiana and celebrate her life, our hearts are with her family and all who loved her,” the caption alongside the photo reads.
The release comes nearly a week after the JFK Library Foundation’s social media accounts confirmed that Schlossberg died on Tuesday, Dec. 30.
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“Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning. She will always be in our hearts,” the post read, signed by “George, Edwin and Josephine Moran, Ed, Caroline, Jack, Rose and Rory.”
Schlossberg, the middle child of Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg, publicly revealed in a November 2025 essay published by The New Yorker that she had been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia.
In the essay, Schlossberg wrote that she learned of the diagnosis after giving birth to her second child in May 2024, when a routine checkup showed an imbalance in her white blood cell count that led to further testing.
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“I did not — could not — believe that they were talking about me. 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,” she wrote, adding that a doctor later told her she had less than a year to live.
She also described the support she received from her family throughout months of treatment, including her parents and siblings, Rose and Jack. Rose, she wrote, was a stem-cell match and donated for her first transfusion.
“My brother was a half-match, but he still asked every doctor if maybe a half-match was better, just in case,” Schlossberg wrote.
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“[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.
In the days following her death, a longtime family friend said Caroline Kennedy and other relatives are determined to keep Schlossberg’s memory present for her children—an effort they compared to what Kennedy’s mother, Jackie Kennedy, had to do after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
“Caroline is going to have to do for Tatiana’s children what Jackie had to do for her children: Keep the memory alive of their parent that they might not remember,” the friend said.
Caroline Kennedy was just five days shy of her 6th birthday when her father was assassinated in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963. Her younger brother, John F. Kennedy Jr., was nearly 3.
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The friend added that, alongside Schlossberg’s husband, Kennedy will work to ensure the children grow up hearing stories about their mother and understanding who she was.
“It’s tragic,” the friend said, “and she has a playbook.”
The friend also said Kennedy will carry her daughter’s memory for the rest of her life, calling it “a gift” to have a family committed to keeping Schlossberg remembered.