John F. Kennedy’s grandson Jack Schlossberg is revealing the very last thing his sister Tatiana Schlossberg stated to him earlier than she died on the age of 35.
“I can let you know that she’s nonetheless rooting for us and the very last thing she stated to me was, ‘You higher win,” Jack, who introduced his candidacy for the Democratic main in New York’s twelfth Congressional District one month earlier than his sister’s loss of life, advised CBS Sunday Morning’s Mo Rocca in an interview shared on Sunday, March 1.
“Nobody knew me higher and I knew nobody higher than her,” Jack continued.
When requested what it was like “rising up with two older sister,” the congressional hopeful admitted that it was “brutal.”
“Completely brutal — they don’t allow you to get away with something,” Jack added. “My model was by no means ok, I’ve by no means gotten a solution proper in my total life. However in all honesty, they’ve taught me every thing I find out about methods to be a wise individual and it’s additionally made me extra conscientious and conscious of my very own privilege and place as a person in a world that always rewards sure kind of conduct of sure folks.”
Tatiana died on December 30, 2025, after she was identified with acute myeloid leukemia and given a yr to stay.
“Our lovely Tatiana handed away this morning. She is going to at all times be in our hearts,” The JFK Library Basis shared in a assertion through Instagram on the time, signed by Tatiana’s husband, George Morantheir two kids, Edwin and Josephine, her dad and mom, Edwin Schlossberg and Caroline Kennedyher siblings Jack and Rose Schlossbergand her sister-in-law, Rory Schlossberg.
Prior to listen to loss of life, the writer and former science and local weather author for The New York Instances penned a transferring essay for The New Yorkerdetailing her prognosis.
“I didn’t — couldn’t — imagine that they had 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 really one of many healthiest folks I knew,” she wrote. “I had a son whom I beloved greater than something and a new child I wanted to deal with.”
On Sunday, Jack confirmed the photographs of his late sister that he retains on a nightstand close to his mattress in his small New York Metropolis residence.
“It is a image of me and Tatiana, my sister — my late sister. Us as children after which at her marriage ceremony,” he stated, exhibiting the reporter the pictures in a twin body. “Her marriage ceremony was in Martha’s Winery at my household’s home, my grandmother’s home there. And, uh, yeah it was superior and her husband George is superior.”
The reporter admits that solely the marketing campaign path can pull him away from Tatiana’s younger kids, his beloved niece and nephew.
“When a child is crying, it’s as a result of they’re drained, hungry or sick…” Rocca stated whereas talking to Jack, who says he’s the “greatest” form of uncle.
“Or they miss uncle Jack,” he interjected. “Lots of people don’t know that one.”
“We’re a very shut household,” he continued. “For me, once you discuss in regards to the Kennedy household, it’s lots of people I don’t know. If you discuss what household is, it’s me, my sisters, my dad and mom — we’re a unit and we’re actually shut.”

