Boyfriend said I’m not beautiful - chemo

So I currently have cervical cancer and am receiving chemotherapy, I’ve lost all of my hair eyebrows included and he knows I’m feeling really insecure about it, we’ve been together for just over a year, my son is his step son and they love each other to bits, we all have a great solid relationship. Well anyway, I’m currently in hospital, I was diagnosed 5 months ago and started pretty intense treatment schedules and right now I’m having a really tough time, I’ve been in hospital for a week now and don’t see myself getting home too soon, though I’m very hopeful to get back to my son, so there was a girl on the ward with me that was a younger girl and another older lady who kept telling her how beautiful she was and it was super sweet and I jokingly said to my bf where’s my compliments like that huh? And we all laughed about that, then he said “nah not doing it” I was like oh okay! So fast forward he got away home and we were texting and I brought it up like what was that about? And he straight out said to me “I don’t think you’re beautiful” followed by “you’re clean looking and you have moisturised skin but you’re not beautiful” and I can’t shake it, it hurt my feelings so much, especially since I feel so insecure with my hair loss and eyebrow loss and I told him this and he said “well all I can say is sorry you don’t like the truth” “you’re not ugly” and it’s just really stuck with me, he come back to visit yesterday and I just couldn’t be the same with him, I am genuinely so hurt, like I know I’m not perfect and a 10/10 or that and that’s fine, everyone has flaws of course they do but to turn around and say it like that really hurt my feelings, he doesn’t seem to understand that it’s hurt me and he just says like sorry that’s it nothing else can be said and won’t try to fix it or correct himself he stands by I’m not beautiful so yeah.. I’m a bit hurt and needed to rant I think;(