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Maria Shriver recently lauded her cousin, Tatiana Schlossberg, for her resilience and eloquence following the announcement of her acute myeloid leukemia diagnosis. Shriver expressed her admiration on Instagram, commending Schlossberg’s courage in sharing her journey through an essay published in the New Yorker.
In her heartfelt post, Shriver highlighted that Schlossberg, who is Caroline Kennedy’s daughter, received a grim prognosis of just one year to live shortly after welcoming her second child last year. Shriver urged her followers to read the powerful piece, describing it as essential reading for anyone seeking inspiration.
“Please take a moment today to read this extraordinary piece by my cousin,” Shriver wrote, emphasizing the remarkable qualities of Schlossberg as a writer, journalist, and family member. At 70, Shriver noted how she was profoundly moved by Schlossberg’s storytelling and the personal challenges she has faced over the past year and a half.
In addition to sharing her cousin’s narrative, Shriver also praised the medical professionals who dedicatedly work to save lives, calling Schlossberg’s essay a tribute to their tireless efforts. “It’s many things, but most importantly, it’s an incredible story of one woman’s life,” Shriver concluded, encouraging readers to experience the story for themselves.
“It’s an ode to all the doctors and nurses who toil on the frontlines of humanity. It’s so many things, but best to read it yourself, and be blown away by one woman’s life story.”
The former First Lady of California, who was previously married to Arnold Schwarzenegger, urged readers “to be grateful for the life [they] are living today, right now, this very minute.”
Schlossberg’s heartbreaking essay detailed how doctors noticed her “blood count looked strange” after she welcomed her daughter — whose name has yet to be revealed — in May 2024.
“A normal white-blood-cell count is around four to eleven thousand cells per microliter,” she stated. “Mine was a hundred and thirty-one thousand cells per microliter.”
The journalist, 35, recalled the doctor saying the blood test result could either be related to her pregnancy, “or it could be leukemia.”
“I did not — could not — believe that they were talking about me,” Schlossberg wrote. “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 shared that medical professionals recommended a bone-marrow transplant and chemotherapy.
But after months of treatment, the writer was told her condition had worsened.
Schlossberg noted that one of her first thoughts was for her and her husband George Moran’s newborn daughter and 3-year-old son.
She shared that Moran had done “everything” that “he possibly could” by communicating with doctors and sleeping on hospital room floors to be with her.
She also credited her parents, Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg, as well as her siblings — sister Rose and brother Jack — for stepping in and helping to raise their two kids for the past year and a half while she received treatment.