Tatiana Schlossberg condemned her cousin Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for his vaccine skepticism whereas saying her terminal most cancers prognosis.
The environmental reporter, 35, shared the heartbreaking information in a New Yorker essay on Saturday, November 22, that she'd been recognized with acute myeloid leukemia and had been given one yr to dwell by her medical doctors.
Schlossberg was initially recognized after giving beginning to her daughter — whose identify she has stored personal — in Could 2024. (Schlossberg and her husband, George Moran, additionally share a son, Edwin, 3.) She spent a number of weeks in New York Metropolis's Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital to bear a bone marrow transplant and later acquired at-home chemotherapy therapies.
Schlossberg defined in her essay that her prognosis coincided together with her cousin RFK Jr., 71, suspending his unbiased presidential bid and endorsing Donald Trump in 2024. The vaccine skeptic finally accepted a place within the Trump administration because the secretary of the Division of Well being and Human Providers.
“In August, 2024, he suspended his marketing campaign and endorsed Donald Trump, who mentioned that he was going to ‘let Bobby go wild' on well being,” Schlossberg wrote within the New Yorker. “My mom wrote a letter to the Senate, to try to cease his affirmation; my brother had been talking out towards his lies for months. I watched from my hospital mattress as Bobby, within the face of logic and customary sense, was confirmed for the place, regardless of by no means having labored in drugs, public well being, or the federal government.”
The journalist recalled feeling like the whole well being scare system was “strained [and] shaky” on the precise second she was reliant on round the clock care.
Schlossberg mirrored on the extra stress of her husband, George, working as a health care provider at Columbia College. (The Trump administration withdrew $400 million in grants to Columbia College in March 2025 over complaints about its response to pro-Palestinian protests on campus. A deal was later reached to revive a few of the funding.)
“Columbia was one of many Trump Administration's first targets in its campaign towards alleged antisemitism on campuses; in Could, the college laid off 100 and eighty researchers after federal-funding cuts,” she wrote. “If George modified jobs, we didn't know if we'd have the ability to get insurance coverage, now that I had a preëxisting situation. Bobby is a identified skeptic of vaccines, and I used to be particularly involved that I wouldn't have the ability to get mine once more, leaving me to spend the remainder of my life immunocompromised, together with tens of millions of most cancers survivors, babies, and the aged.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his spouse Cheryl Hines in February 2025. Andrew Harnik/Getty Photos
Schlossberg additionally known as out her relative for his controversial remarks on the “Lex Fridman Podcast” in 2023 that “there's no vaccine that's secure and efficient.” (Kennedy later downplayed these feedback by insisting he's “professional security” reasonably than “anti-vaccine.”)
“Bobby most likely doesn't keep in mind the tens of millions of people that have been paralyzed or killed by polio earlier than the vaccine was obtainable,” she added. “My dad, who grew up in New York Metropolis within the Forties and ‘50s, does keep in mind. Just lately, I requested him what it was like when he obtained the vaccine. He mentioned that it felt like freedom.”
Elsewhere in her poignant New Yorker essay, Schlossberg acknowledged her utter shock at being recognized with most cancers at 9 months pregnant.
“I didn't — couldn't — imagine that they have been speaking about me. I had swum a mile within the pool the day earlier than, 9 months pregnant. I wasn't sick. I didn't really feel sick. I used to be truly one of many healthiest individuals I knew,” Tatiana wrote in The New Yorker. “I had a son whom I liked greater than something and a new child I wanted to maintain.”
Schlossberg is way from the primary member of the Kennedy household to return out towards RFK Jr. 5 Kennedy relations— Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Courtney Kennedy, Kerry Kennedy, Chris Kennedy and Rory Kennedy — launched a joint assertion denouncing their brother when he endorsed Trump in August 2024.
“We wish an America full of hope and sure collectively by a shared imaginative and prescient of a brighter future, a future outlined by particular person freedom, financial promise and nationwide satisfaction,” they said.
Their letter continued “Our brother Bobby's resolution to endorse Trump at this time is a betrayal of the values that our father and our household maintain most expensive. It's a unhappy ending to a tragic story.”
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Throughout an interview on CNN, Robert argued that political variations inside his household have been no totally different to these confronted by tens of millions of Individuals.
“I've an enormous household,” he mentioned. “I don't know anybody in America who's obtained a household who agrees with them on every part.”
Following Robert's nomination to the HHS division in early 2025, Tatiana's mom Caroline Kennedy criticized the nomination as a result of her cousin lacked “any related, authorities, monetary, administration or medical expertise.”
“His views on vaccines are harmful and wilfully misinformed,” Caroline added.
Tatiana's youthful brother, Jack Schlossberg, even trolled Robert's spouse, Cheryl Hines, in July 2025.
“I've by no means met Cheryl Hines, but when I did, I'd inform her she seems to be tremendous dehydrated,” Schlossberg, 32, quipped via X on July 23.
Earlier this month, Jack introduced plans to run for Congress in New York's twelfth congressional district within the 2026 midterm elections.
“I'm not operating as a result of I've all of the solutions to our issues. I'm operating as a result of the individuals of New York 12 do. I need to hearken to your struggles, hear your tales, amplify your voice, go to Washington and execute in your behalf,” he wrote via Instagram.
Jack continued, “There's nowhere I'd reasonably be than within the area combating for my hometown. Over the following eight months, through the course of this marketing campaign, I hope to fulfill as a lot of you as I can. For those who see me on the road, please say howdy. If I knock in your door, I hope we will have a dialog. As a result of politics needs to be private.”
