Tatiana Schlossberg’s Family: All About Her Husband George Moran and Their Two Kids

Tatiana Schlossberg, the middle child of Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg, was a wife and mother of two at the time of her death on Dec. 30. She was 35.

The journalist revealed in a November 2025 essay published by The New Yorker that she had been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia shortly after giving birth to her second child, a daughter. Her death came weeks after sharing that deeply personal account.

Schlossberg married Dr. George Moran in 2017. The couple met while attending Yale University and later welcomed two children, a son, Edwin, and a daughter, Josephine. Though she largely kept her private life out of the spotlight, Schlossberg wrote movingly about the support she received from her husband, children, and extended family throughout her illness.

Below is an overview of Schlossberg’s family life and the people who stood beside her during her final years.

George Moran is an attending urologist at Columbia University

Dr. George Moran grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut, and is an attending urologist and assistant professor of urology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, according to his Columbia University biography.

He earned his medical degree from Columbia University and completed his residency in urology at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center. His areas of specialization include benign prostatic hyperplasia, male voiding dysfunction, and prostate cancer screening and diagnosis. In addition to his clinical work, Moran is also a published researcher, with work appearing in the American Journal of Surgery.

They met at Yale University and married in 2017

Schlossberg and Moran met in the late 2000s while both were students at Yale University. Moran rowed crew throughout his time at the school, while Schlossberg studied history.

The couple married in September 2017, about five years after Schlossberg graduated. They exchanged vows at her family’s estate on Martha’s Vineyard in a ceremony attended by family and close friends.

They welcomed two children together

Schlossberg and Moran became parents in 2022 with the birth of their son, Edwin, according to Town and Country. The couple kept his birth private for several months before Schlossberg’s brother, Jack Schlossberg, publicly shared his joy at becoming an uncle.

“I can’t get away from him. I love him,” Jack said during an April 2022 appearance on Today.

Their daughter, Josephine, was born on May 25, 2024, at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. In her New Yorker essay, Schlossberg described the moment she first held her newborn with her husband.

“My husband, George, and I held her and stared at her and admired her newness,” she wrote.

Her cancer was discovered shortly after her daughter’s birth

Soon after Josephine was born, doctors noticed that Schlossberg had an abnormal white blood cell count. Further testing led to a diagnosis of acute myeloid leukemia.

In her essay, Schlossberg recounted how quickly her world shifted from welcoming a newborn to confronting a life-threatening illness.

“My parents, Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg, had brought my two-year-old son to the hospital to meet his sister, but suddenly I was being moved to another floor,” she wrote. “My daughter was carried off to the nursery. My son didn’t want to leave; he wanted to drive my hospital bed like a bus. I said goodbye to him and my parents and was wheeled away.”

Doctors told her she would need chemotherapy followed by a bone marrow transplant.

“I did not — could not — believe that they were talking about me,” she wrote. “I had swum a mile in the pool the day before, nine months pregnant. I wasn’t sick. I didn’t feel sick.”

Her husband and family supported her throughout her illness

Over the following year and a half, Schlossberg leaned heavily on her family. Her parents, her older sister Rose—who donated her stem cells—and her younger brother Jack were frequently at her side. Her children were largely cared for by family members as she underwent treatment.

“My parents and my brother and sister, too, have been raising my children and sitting in my various hospital rooms almost every day for the last year and a half,” she wrote. “They have held my hand unflinchingly while I have suffered.”

She also described the extraordinary support of her husband, who used his medical knowledge and professional connections to help navigate her care.

“George did everything for me that he possibly could,” she wrote. “He talked to all the doctors and insurance people that I didn’t want to talk to; he slept on the floor of the hospital.”

Moran brought their children to visit whenever possible, and the family temporarily moved to her parents’ home to stay close during her treatment.

As her illness progressed, Schlossberg said she focused on staying present with her children and preserving memories.

“When I look at him, I try to fill my brain with memories,” she wrote of her son, adding that she reminded him she was a climate journalist so he would remember her as more than someone who was sick.

She also lovingly described her daughter as a lively baby with “curly red hair like a flame” who liked to wear a string of fake pearls around her neck.

In the final weeks of her life, Schlossberg wrote that her priority was simple and profound: to live in the moment with her husband and children, and to be with them for as long as she could.