Mandy Moore was emotionally affected after Caroline Kennedy’s daughter Tatiana Schlossberg revealed her terminal cancer battle.
“Her story and her exquisite way with words absolutely shattered me,” Moore, 41, wrote via her Instagram Stories on Saturday, November 22. “To have this grace and vulnerability within the face of what she and her family are battling is unimaginable to fathom.”
Schlossberg, 35, announced in an essay for The Recent Yorker titled “A Battle With My Blood,” published earlier on Saturday, that she was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia. She has been given one 12 months to live. (Tatiana is considered one of the three children of John F. Kennedy’s daughter and her husband, Edwin Schlossberg.)
“The cuts to cancer research are beyond unconscionable. Please do yourself a favor and browse this,” Moore wrote, hoping her followers read Tatiana’s story. “Sending all of the love and good [thoughts] to Tatiana, her husband and their children.”
In her essay, Tatiana revealed that she was diagnosed with terminal cancer after welcoming her second baby, a daughter, in 2024.
“My husband, George [Moran], and I held her and stared at her and admired her newness. A number of hours later, my doctor noticed that my blood count looked strange,” Tatiana wrote. “A standard white-blood-cell count is around 4 to eleven thousand cells per microliter. Mine was 100 and thirty-one thousand cells per microliter.”
In keeping with Tatiana, her doctors discovered a rare mutation of leukemia in her blood cells.
“I couldn’t be cured by a regular course of treatment. I would want just a few months, no less than, of chemotherapy, which might aim to cut back the variety of blast cells in my bone marrow,” she explained in The Recent Yorker piece. “Then, I would want a bone-marrow transplant, which could cure me. After the transplant, I might probably need more chemotherapy, frequently, to try to forestall the cancer from returning.”
Tatiana later underwent a pair of clinical trials, where her oncologist told her “he could keep [her] alive for a 12 months, possibly.”
“My first thought was that my kids, whose faces live permanently on the inside my eyelids, wouldn’t remember me,” she wrote of her kids, born in 2022 and 2024. “My son may need just 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 maintain my daughter. I couldn’t change her diaper or give her a shower or feed her, all due to the risk of infection after my transplants. I used to be gone for nearly half of her first 12 months of life.”
Throughout Tatiana’s cancer battle, she has tirelessly been supported by her husband, parents and her two siblings.
“This has been an awesome gift, although I feel their pain day by day,” Tatiana wrote. “For my whole life, I even have tried to be good, to be a great student and a great sister and a great daughter, and to guard my mother and never make her upset or indignant. Now I even have added a brand new tragedy to her life, to our family’s life and there’s nothing I can do to stop it.”