Opinions?

So things have been going really well with my boyfriend and I. I’ve slept over at his place every night for the past month. He gave me spare keys to his house and he gave me some drawers at his place to keep clothing.

Tonight we were just joking around and he made a comment about how he thought I had a nice booty. I kept disagreeing with him and it was like how you flirt when you’re 13 and don’t really know how to flirt (we’re 23 and 24 btw)😂 but then I jokingly said I’d fight him for disagreeing with me and he responded with “you’d fight me for loving every bit of you😨”

When he said that I was ecstatic because he said the word love and I felt as though it was a big step for us. I’ve known for a while that I am in love with him but I didn’t want to say it first and scare him away if he didn’t feel the same. And when I was so happy and telling my friend about it she said “he’s just saying he loves your body, he didn’t say he loves you” and now I guess I’m feeling kind of hurt that she would kill my mood, but also confused.

Is she right? Was he just saying he loved my body and it wasn’t really anything about him loving me?