Maria Shriver is voicing her support for cousin Tatiana Schlossberg, who announced she was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia diagnosis in an emotional essay in the New Yorker.

The NBC News special anchor, 70, shared a link and passages from Schlossberg's "extraordinary" essay Nov. 22 on Instagram. In her caption, she said she was "blown away" by her fellow Kennedy family member, 35, who wrote that her diagnosis is terminal.

"If you can only read one thing today, please make take the time for this extraordinary piece of writing by my cousin Caroline’s extraordinary daughter Tatiana," Shriver wrote.

Shriver called Schlossberg, who is the granddaughter of late U.S. President John F. Kennedy and the daughter of Shriver's first cousin Caroline Kennedy, "a beautiful writer, journalis

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