My mom calls me exotic, and I’m white, is it racist?

To preface this, my family is 100% white.

I have almond shaped eyes and am very curvy.

Growing up, my mom always told me I have oriental eyes and am built like a black woman.

Now she always meant these as compliments, but they always made me feel uneasy, especially as an adult.

I brought up to a friend in conversation what she said and thought it was racist and they said “it’s a compliment, it’s not racist”

I said she’s told me I look exotic on multiple occasions and I was told I was racist if I thought looking exotic was an insult.

I’m sorry but, what my mom says, at the very least, is pretty inappropriate, right?