The granddaughter of the late President John F. Kennedy has announced she has terminal cancer and has only one year left to live. The 35-year-old journalist published an essay in the New Yorker magazine, writing that ten minutes after she gave birth to her second child, a baby girl, in May 2024, doctors noticed her white-blood-cell count “looked strange.” She wrote that she was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, with a rare mutation called Inversion 3 shortly afterward. Schlossberg, who has been married to Dr. George Moran since 2017, wrote that she couldn’t believe this was happening. “I had a son whom I loved more than anything and a newborn I need to take care of,” she wrote. Schlossberg said after several clinical trials and two transplants, her doctor told her he could keep her “alive for a year, maybe.” She has spent the past 18 months in treatment, receiving a bone-marrow transplant, chemotherapy, and blood transfusions. The rare mutation with which Schlossberg is afflicted, Inversion 3, is usually seen in older patients. In January, Schlossberg joined a clinical trial of CAR-T-cell therapy, a type of immunotherapy against certain blood cancers. However, she has been told by doctors that she has less than 12 months to live. Schlossberg, who graduated from Yale and has a Master’s degree from Oxford, previously worked as a journalist at The New York Times and published her first book in 2019. She has been married to urologist George Moran, whom she met as an undergrad at Yale, since 2017. The couple has two children: son, Edwin, 3, and a daughter, 18 months. In her essay for the New Yorker, the young mom agonizingly describes the prospect of her children growing up without memories of her. “My first thought was that my kids, whose faces live permanently on the inside of my eyelids, wouldn’t remember me,” she writes. “My son might have a few memories, but he’ll probably start confusing them with pictures he sees or stories he hears. 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.”