A girl, in university, told me this when she was trying to tell me why she's kinda having feelings for me.

I've been called cute a lot of times but this was the first time someone explicitly called me hot.

For context, I'm 6'3ish, big built arms and shoulders, with somewhat of a belly, I put in efforts so I'd say I have an above average face too.

She told me this line after telling me she finds me physically attractive so I'm not going to preach the "looks don't matter bs", it definitely matters.

I'm just curious to know, how is something as abstract as confidence connected to being hot. I don't understand, I'll probably, never look at a chick and think to myself "fuck! she's so confident 🥵" then how is behavioural traits hot to women?

Here's the text she sent me that evening after confessing.