The 32-year-old actress has two daughter Honor and Haven, 2, with husband Cash Warren, reported People magazine.
"Honor likes wearing heels and dresses. I'm like, 'No! Don't you want to climb a tree?," Alba said.
The 'Honey' star said Honor, whose clothes gets handed over to Haven, loves being a big sister.
"That's the way I was raised, so that's how it is for my family, too," she said.
Alba had earlier said that unlike her daughter, she used to be tomboyish in her childhood.
"For sure I see a mini me. I was a tomboy when I was a kid. Honor is like me grown up. It's so bizarre," she had said at the time.