Why do some men want women that look like barbie dolls but they look like mythological creatures?

I am an attractive woman many would consider Barbie-ish. I fell in love with someone who wasn’t very attractive. He was everything I never wanted. Skinny, red hair, pasty skin with freckles, a skin deformity right on his face. He liked the Barbie type and at the time I considered myself out of his league only to find out the opposite. He was too good for me, a much greater person than I can ever be. I never noticed his face or his features before long - I didn’t have to bc his real beauty was so magnificent it didn’t matter. He was the best partner I ever had. We broke up 10 years ago, and I still wish it weren’t so. He was a unicorn. Sometimes those ogres are actually unicorns…..